Fetterman wouldn't stop talking about how only progressives could save America and how he was a progressive...
Then he had his stroke and suddenly he'd get belligerently angry anytime someone called him a progressive.
Either he was lying to get elected, or he had the relatively common stroke side effects of a personality change.
Either way, it makes sense all his staffers and donors are running from him. Dudes a fucking joke these days.
At least he spared us from Oz becoming a senator. Even with the personality change, he isn't nearly as bad as that grifter. Now hopefully someone can primary him when his seat is available, or better yet maybe someone can convince him to step aside since he's no longer the person he used to be.
The stroke may well have been part of it, but he honestly told us who he was when he pulled a shotgun on an unarmed Black man out for a jog, all because he thought he’d heard gunshots and assumed the man was running away.
So in psychology they break racism down into implicit and explicit. Basically subconscious and conscious racism.
The subconscious is about how you determine your in group as a toddler. So being around other races prevents it from forming along racial lines, but even seeing them on TV helps.
Grow up in a homogenous environment tho, it'll form along racial lines.
To prevent explicit racism, you have to use critical thinking, but in situations like you're example, someone reacts fast and those implicit biases against other races presents.
A stroke can damage the part of your brain that does that critical thinking, and suddenly someone "becomes" racist.
The details are important because we have zero control of what we're exposed to during our formulative years. It's literally out of our hands. And while we can over ride those biases most of our lives, even just normal aging makes them more pronounced.
But like, that shit where people kept blaming racist shit they said/did on popping an Ativan and staying awake on Twitter?
That has a valid scientific reason for making them say things they legit never would have normally.
Acting like implicit/explicit racism is the same just confuses those older people who are legit "from a different time" and is why they make such a big deal about how they're being persecuted.
It's terrible they're racist, but it's literally because they're losing important brain functions. I spent a couple years working with people with intellectual disabilities, they don't respond well to being yelled at, but if you break stuff down so they understand what's happening, everyone is better.
So, yeah.
Fetterman likely has always had implicit biases, but this isn't "mask off" this is a man who may no longer be capable of recognizing things on a deeper level than "you don't look like my tribe, you're dangerous".
Which for most of human evolution, was a big deal.
We just need to ensure future generations don't view their tribe as only people of the same race so this stops happening to them when they age or get fucked up.
So, the stroke turned him more Republican?
What’s he done? I was a fan from a distance during his campaign.
Is it the stroke? This seems insane.
A stroke can affect many things that get chalked up to "personality change".
We think of ourselves as a single entity, but really what's make us "us" is a collection of a whole bunch of things and changing some of them can change the overall result.
So I think it's the stroke.
This is who he always was.
I knew I shouldn't have trusted someone from York county
They probably aren't fans of Israel's genocide in Gaza.
EDIT: Looks like @Pogogunner is pro-genocide.
I used to think he seemed cool because I knew nothing about him. Fuck him. Fuck Israel.
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