was talking about music to a family member who has seemed more and more radicalised to the right recently. i asked if they liked the album “the queen is dead” by the smiths and they got really angry and said “as a royalist i find that kind of thing offensive.” they then used that as a springboard to talk about overhearing a “pakistani” person saying they were going to egg the king, and how it’s not right for foreigners to come to this country and disrespect our way of life. they switched multiple times between calling the person “pakistani” and “indian” without actually knowing anything about the person. they finally finished off their rant by switching to talking about how the world is too woke these days and “everyone is so offended if you use the wrong pronouns” and “why is everybody so offended these days?”
i asked if they’d ever actually met a real human being in their entire life who corrected their pronouns and they genuinely stopped and thought about it and said no. i laughed and pointed out that in the last 5 minutes of talking they had been offended about an album title, an overheard joke someone else made, and a made up person that they invented in their head. that the only offended person was them and that they were the very person they were describing who gets offended about everything these days.
the conversation ended there idk why.
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