I need to use this analogy more often. Maybe the concept will actually stick if the beer has suffered and they have no more beer.

Why thank you.

Cheers from another fucked evangelical education student. I remember those videos, they bothered the heck out of me back then. I wasn’t old enough to articulate why, but I could not accept the fact that I should rejoice in watching the world burn.

Well, there are some religious groups that are technically thinking about their children’s future. It’s just that their future includes a rapture and Jesus cleaning up the mess. And we all know that Jesus gives science a big frowny face.

That is, by far, my pet peeve of denier claims. It caught on with people and came with a fancy, deceptive graph that made deniers feel all smart and smug. No matter how many times I explain that the depth of the ice is far, far less then what it should be and cannot be compared to the width of the ice, I’m brushed off…

I went to super religious private school for elementary/middle school, and then public high school. My private school teachers were always right back then. And then, for some magical reason that I’ll never understand, my high school teachers were always wrong. About everything. It’s amazing how much English Grammar…

Yup, I have boomer parents. I assume it was just the way of reinforcing older=smarter before the age of the internet.

I don’t know if my father supports Trump or not, because I haven’t spoken to him or my mother in 5 years, for reasons that predict the high likelihood that they are Trump supporters.

It really is an interesting, if not depressing, topic to dive into. I’m Gen2, and it really made sense to me when I started digging into the research. Recently however, it seems to have skewed into epigenetics research which, while also interesting, I feel it removes a lot of the human psychology and humanity from the…

My grandma grew up in the Sauerlands (born 1932), which isn’t far from the Rhinelands, but she grew up in an immensely rural area. My guess is that she was just too young when Hitler came to power and was either too young or sheltered to understand and process what happened during the war, especially since she wasn’t…

I find that interesting, as my non-Jewish grandma was born in Germany and was a small child during the war and moved here after the war. She almost fetishizes America for saving Germany from fascism, to the point that she is okay with Trump (doesn’t support him, but turns a blind eye) because America can do no wrong…

Very true. In that same thought process, I think there’s also an element of never personally experiencing anything at that level*, so the doubt or denial can become even more removed. Lets face it, most Americans have been greatly removed from the horrors of war, genocide, authoritarianism, etc. While I can’t say that…

Yup. As I said, I don’t think the theory can be applied to every situation, but there are a lot of places where this kind of template can be looked at.

I understand your feelings. I’m in the 2nd Generation in the above list, although I didn’t know it until I was in my teens (long story). Anyway, I’m one of those who sought out that emotional connection and it horrified me. It still horrifies me. I think back a lot to my grandpa’s food and religious insecurity and I…

I’ve actually been thinking about this recently. I wrote a paper for my Holocaust studies class on the generational effect of the Holocaust. I don’t have the paper in front of me right now, but it went something like this:

I can’t even imagine the heartbreak that you must feel seeing that. Or how the students feel when they get to college and know that they’re behind.

As a Michigan resident who eventually wants to be a librarian...I agree.

But...but he’s a nerd! Surely he can fix everything using his corporate nerd magic!

My guess is one of two things:

My dad grew up with a lot of shit because he was the child of immigrants who couldn’t speak English, were poor, etc. And he’s fully embraced the racist elements of no immigration, everyone needs to speak English all the time, deport the “anchor babies”, Christians are awesome and every other religion is bad, and so…