• ceenote@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    “This wasn’t supposed to happen to the nice immigrants I use know, just the bad ones Fox News tells me about!”

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      That’s exactly it. Fox News demonizes and de-humanizes every minority group. I remember around 20 years ago, my grandparents got an openly gay couple as neighbors. My grandparents were shocked that their neighbors were just regular people.

      They had watched enough conservative media that they had been convinced gay people were some sort of twisted abominations who were out to destroy our way of life.

      Conservative media does that for every minority group (except the rich). Gays, immigrants, single mothers, the poor, atheists, trans people, educated people, etc. You name it, Fox News and co are constantly pushing this idea that anyone not like you (their audience) are your enemies and are trying to destroy America.