Okay this is gonna probably make absolutely zero sense, but I’m gonna try and explain:
(This might cause some brain damage and you might lose a few braincells from reading this)
For context, most of my family are US Citizens, we were all born in China.
My mom (and my dad, somewhat) is just so big on “Tough on crime”, whenever there were alleged lootings during protests, my parents would be okay with them getting shot to death. Constantly blame “Democrats” for crime and the “migrant crisis”. Also love their Wechat and constantly play (Chinese) nationalistic songs and other propaganda on the fucking speaker. Also, if you are dealing with severe depression, and temporarily can’t work, they call you a “廢柴”, basically the cantonese term equivalent of the term “useless eater”.
My brother is into some crazy conspiracy theory that the Chinese Government is in a conspiracy to replace Han Chinese with, not only Chinese ethnic minorities, but African Migrants (like wtf dude), basically the equivalent of the “white replacement conspiracy theory” but in China instead (yea it sounds insane, doesn’t it? Like… buddy, China doesn’t even give permanent residency to foreigners, what the fuck is this insane conspiracy theory? Also, he’s a US Citizen, why the fuck does he care?). Simultaneously, he opposes racism from white people in the US (… some crazy hypocrisy, isn’t it? 🤨).
Tell me this isn’t just me with the most insane family in the world.
More common than you think unfortunately. The internet has given anyone the option to find their mental echo chamber.
My parents a hispanic immigrants (both citizens) who voted for trump, are republicans and also hate immigrants. They believe all the Obama drinks children blood stuff, are antivaxers, and since my older sister is with them, she is now also an antivaxer so her children have zero shots of any kind. (Good luck to them in the future if they want to travel)
One of them believes aliens speak to them. I’ve seen a group in my family go to cult like events where they all dress in the same white uniforms and talk about the universe.
The immigrant population voting for Trump is the most ming boggling example of brainwashing I have seen in a long time. It even beats out all the white women voting for Trump instead of Clinton or Harris because they thought “women were too emotional to hold office”.
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Most of my family is just bat shit insane
Yeah man. Everybody’s family is insane on some level - some more than others. Lemme put it this way, there was a reason why I moved 3000 miles away from mine.
I have no advice. I just hope you and your kitty find peace and calm soon. 🥲
Oh you recognize my username lol. I think my cat is fine, like she doesn’t attack anyone, there’s no reason she’d get hurt (hopefully). My parents actually like the cat, I wish I got the same love as my cat gets 🥲
I can confirm this is absolutely insane.
But sadly not the first time I heard about something like this.
Some of my friends told me on separate Occasions that their Parents ,they are 1st Generation Immigrants to Germany, support our far-right Party AFD. And are simultaneously angry with the racism they encounter.
Propaganda works.
Some of my friends told me on separate Occasions that their Parents ,they are 1st Generation Immigrants to Germany, support our far-right Party AFD.
Yep, I can confirm that. The most racist people in my wider circle of friends and colleagues are Polish and Hungarian immigrants themselves.
They are extremely religious too and I think the propaganda often builds on their beliefs.
To spice things up, imagine them as Russian immigrants, completely immersed in the alt reality via direct Sattelite TV feed into their Living Rooms 24/7. There are people in Germany who are scared to death because despite living amongst us, believing the lies their TV tells them.
(E.g. Russo phobia in Germany, Gangs target Russians, Police helps or shit like that… Fox news but X10 turbo alpha beat down edition)
Okay wow :0 This is nearly 1:1 what a Friend told me. They left Ukraine for Germany in the early 2000s and now they watch exclusively Russian Television and even broke contact with their family in Ukraine because “They are Nazis who want to kill Russians”.
In my family my sister is an antivaxer, so my niece is unvaccinated and has been through some sicknesses - from my perspective unnecessarily. Good that she didn’t get anything langlasting (yet).
I was gonna comment that this seems like basic ultra conservative nationalistic first generation Chinese American until you got to the Han replacement theory, which makes zero sense. I’m sorry this is really tough.
I’m happy for you that you have escape toxic Chinese and American nationalism. I’m sorry you have to deal with this.
My family can also be insane but dude, this is tough.
Edit: I want to add a comment that I frequently comment on Chinese culture and am sometimes taken the wrong way. I do not mean my first sentence in a rude or racist way. There is a weird trend of Chinese nationalism, and Chinese immigrants taking up pro China but extremely conservative positions that goes against minority rights while also being a minority in America. Chinese cultural is very conservative on its own but its blend with nationalism and political and social conservatives breeds wild ideologies in America.
Given what a shit state the world is in and seemingly headed for worse, I’d wager you’re far from alone in having family that believes in absolute rubbish.
Just know the most senseless people make up at least 2/3rds the population.
Felt like 4/5ths during the pandemic. Ugh, it felt like a social awakening. I hate it.
It’s kinda amazing how people are just so casually racist among people who they have more in common with than not, but skin color means so much more.
My mom was like that. Despite “having black friends” and all that rot, towards the end of her life after I moved out and left her homeless, she was so racist against POC. Like I distinctly remember the day my wife and I had stopped my and taken her to lunch out of pity, and we discussed her situation. At one point, when asked why she wasn’t willing to try to get into public housing instead of living in a tent city, she told me she “didn’t want to be a light in the dark.”
If, unlike me at the time, you’re baffled by what that means, she was saying she didn’t want to live around black people. Despite having had black friends as roommates within the previous handful of years. I still played dumb and made her spell it out for me in crayon, because man is it fun to make ‘not racist’ people explain their racism in no uncertain terms and make them squirm as they try to dance around it.
I’m sorry to say it, but if your mom is living homeless, has the chance to not live homeless, but doesn’t make the choice because of racism… I dunno, her situation is kind of deserved.
Preaching to the choir, friend. I knew she’d be homeless when I moved out, and still did it anyway. To add to the ‘deserved situation’ feeling, part of the reason I moved out was finding a shake and bake meth lab in the basement.
Racist people hate being racist without plausible deniability. If they’re gonna say racist shit, make them say it loud and clear
Okay, I’ll ask: If they like China so much what are they doing in America?
If they hate immigrants so much, why the fuck did they migrate? XD
They’re one of the good ones… 🙄
China doesn’t even give permanent residency to foreigners
China totally does, if you’re either employed for 3+ years with a master’s degree and annual salary above 500-800k RMB (depending on the province) or with a bachelor’s and 5+ years work experience (same income requirements), OR have a PhD and are employed by a company listed on a Chinese (not HK) stock exchange or a government owned company/entity in a higher R&D function (no income requirements), OR are married to a Chinese and have been working for 7+ years in China (no income or education requirements).
Source: Used to live in China, qualified for 2/3 pathways and my company kept pushing me to accept residency (which I refused to be able to withdraw my social security accounts upon my planned departure).
But I digress.
Due to my Chinese wife I have quite a few touching points with “offshore Chinese” as she calls them, and there are quite a few insane ones among the diaspora. The “glory to China, but I wouldn’t ever live there again” types, mostly.
And yeah those wechat hymns and crap from douyin is omnipresent. We avoid those people like the plague, but every once in a while some of them show up to events hosted by saner people and spew their bullshit.
You are not alone.
Well let’s see…
- Father: Statue.
- Stepfather: Conspiracy nut. Believes in a shadow government that strives to control everything while also already controlling everything. Good handyman with practical problem solving skills.
- Mother: Conspiracy nut. Believes in ancient aliens, auras, magic healing crystals, animals doing telepathy for verbal communication, and an occult shadow government. Very creative person, but very little practical skills.
- Little Brother #1 (mom’s side): Conspiracy nut. Believes in… Hard to tell. It keeps changing, but it’s some combination of shadow occults, god spirits, and completely misunderstanding quantum science. Also does drugs, and at some point believed to be the direct descendant of Thor.
- Little Brother #2 (dad’s side): Completely bought into billionaire philanthropy. Believes people like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are highly intelligent good people who can’t be greedy because they already have everything. Likes listening to Joe Rogen. Prefers his gut feelings over demonstrated facts. Very creative person who thinks a lot and makes beats.
- Little Sister #1: A very responsible person. Travels a lot. Probably the most mature from all my siblings. Is amazing at working in hospitality, and has gotten job offers from some pretty high profile hotels all over Europe.
- Little Brother #3 (mom’s side): Looks like a tall, lanky hippie and is a botanist. Despite appearances, doesn’t believe and doesn’t care about hippie shit. He just likes plants. Also a D&D player.
- Little Sister #2: Hard to tell. Used to be a rebel, now is just sort of “normal”. Just does basic things, like going to school, having a job…
- Little Brother #4 (dad’s side): Terminally online no-life guy who hardly ever leaves his room, despite being a grown ass man at this point, but still behaves like a dank 16 year old. Sometimes I forget he’s in his 20s. American style right-winger living in Europe, complete with being casually racist and sexist about everything, despite never going out and actually meeting anyone. Has literally no skills or ambitions.
Yeah… You know… I was about to say that my family isn’t batshit insane, but it seems like it is…
What do you mean by statue?
Also, what is your “batshit” thing? I find it interesting now that you have described a few of your family. :)
He’s about as dense and flexible as a statue.
I’m… Not sure? I guess I’m an artist. Trying to make that work in this capitalist dystopia is pretty batshit. I get by with my food delivery job and drawing art for furries.
Two jobs is torture, I hope you will be able to focus on your art soon.
