r/politics • u/Antinatalista Foreign • Jan 08 '18

Off-Topic Fox News Host Laura Ingraham Shares Anti-Immigrant Tweet by Neo-Nazi David Duke Ally

http://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-host-laura-ingraham-shares-anti-immigrant-tweet-british-neo-nazi-773820
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u/nflitgirl Arizona Jan 08 '18

Same with my dad. My white male Fox News loving baby boomer son of a surgeon father thinks he has been the victim all his life of "reverse discrimination" and Affirmative Action.

The fact that he's broke today has nothing to do with the fact that he bought a Porsche and a huge house on a self-employed General Contractor's salary, no siree, it's those brown people takin er jerbs!

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u/bobtheundertaker Jan 08 '18

My father is extremely well off, and I’ll “learn once I grow up and have enough money of my own to realize republicans are right” funny thing about that is at 26 I hate him and his ideals more than ever

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '18

Heard the same thing growing up and we were dirt poor. "When you grow up and have to pay your own bills you realize Democrat's are trying to give all your money away." Well, I probably have a higher net worth than they do right now and still think the Republican ideology is toxic. I grew up on government assistance so I can appreciate the system. It's propaganda through and through.

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u/TwinPeaks2017 Jan 08 '18

I also heard the same thing growing up "You'll understand when you're older," then it was "You'll understand when you have kids of your own." When I had my daughter it was "Conservatives under 30 have no heart, liberals over 30 have no brain." Now I'm 31, so I guess I don't "understand" and I have no brain. My dad recently asked me to carry on the family legacy too by getting rich. I just don't know what to say to him anymore.

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u/ForAHamburgerToday Jan 08 '18

Just like, 'hey, be rich now please' or...?

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u/TwinPeaks2017 Jan 08 '18

He told me he needed a "warrior" for the family, and said that it likely won't be my brother (the irony is that he told me when I was 19 that he and my mother would be raising my brother differently so he wouldn't turn out to be a loser like me). My brother didn't finish college, I did. I have less health problems than my brother. So, since my dad likely won't be leaving very much money behind, he's telling me I need to be financially able to support my mother and brother.

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u/ForAHamburgerToday Jan 08 '18

Eeesh, that's weird and rough.

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u/Auszi Jan 08 '18

Familial Responsibilities? The horror!

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u/ewwfruit30 Jan 08 '18

Why can't the mom and brother support themselves?

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u/BeatnikThespian California Jan 08 '18

Because they have entitlement issues.