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Why are right-wingers so vocal about their views? Or am I just unlucky? (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just wondering what everyone thinks about this. In almost every place I've worked coworkers with right wing beliefs are never shy about giving their opinion and views on things.

The major talking points are usually variations of stuff like: we spend to much on beneficiaries and they should stop being lazy and get a job. That poor people have kids so they can get free money from the government. We need or be tougher on crime. Even absurd shit like being outraged that a homeless person had a smartphone and indulging in such lavishness is why they're homeless etc etc

Some of the shit I hear from otherwise seemingly lovely people is insane. I feel like I have to be so much more measured and have all my 'evidence' ready to defend my commie beliefs while these people can just say whatever bullshit they want and everybody just kinda nods in agreement.

Is this a normal thing in the Angloverse? Is it because their views are essentially the status quo already and they have just fully internalised the capitalist propeganda?

Please let me know

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (3 children)

If you're white and have a certain wasp "look" about you, they could think you're "safe" to talk to

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

This is a good point, I'm a slavic immigrant so not exactly waspy but still very much a mayo verriety. But these have also been fairly multicultural places which is even more bizarre.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I'm from a small town in the rural south and it always happens. It's unreal how many people think it's cool to just start saying slurs to strangers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I find it funny when people will go off about immigrants and I have to remind them that I'm an immigrant. Often gets quite awkward but then they'll say "yeah but you're one of the *good ones *"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yep. I'm white and have greying hair and a beard, and I've had instances where strangers will come up to me and start chud-talking like I'm one of them.

I'm not really a confrontational type, so I'll just "uh huh" my way through these encounters without looking at them until they get the hint and leave. I realize I'm adding to the problem by passively letting them have their one-sided rants, but my social anxiety keeps me from telling them to fuck off and that I don't agree with them.