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0 pointshelen___keller5y ago0 comments

Not the usual culture war, but my wife and I live with my mother-in-law and after she got addicted to a certain conspiracy youtube scene she's started taking (or almost taking) increasingly drastic actions.

1. (pre-covid) asking us to cancel a family trip to her home country because her youtube channel says the police are just randomly shooting americans for being american

2. Refusing to go outside at all for months post-covid. In the first few weeks she tried to convince us not to even open the windows!

3. Having family members send us HCQ as a "just in case" even though we literally are more cautious about covid than probably 99% of households

4. Trying to convince us that she should take the HCQ as a preventative even though she goes outside the house for maybe an hour a week and takes no significant risk of exposure

Anyways, I think the easy part is avoiding discussions about politics and world events. Ultimately it matters very little to me why she thinks democrats are evil and which boogeyman she thinks secretly controls the world's finances. It becomes problematic when it leads to irrational behavior. I'm concerned what her youtube channel is going to convince her to believe or to do should Joe Biden win the election.

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monoideism5y ago

Excellent example. I have mostly the same problem at the opposite end of the political spectrum, and then one extended family member on the other end who is a lot like what you describe. They all are disruptive to family life.

And the media has covered the many revolts/disagreements of activist employees at Facebook, Twitter, Coinbase and elsewhere. I'm sure people have seen the coverage?

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