I don’t know where to put this.
I’m a bicurious/hetero young white woman with Christian white parents. My dad found out I support gay rights despite identifying as straight. He didn’t really like that I have a Hispanic fiancé (he was okay with it, but he was like “you could do better, come on.”)
He called me a “leftist lib” because I support interracial marriages, gay marriages, trans rights, etc. How can you use supporting these things an insult though??
I also really want acceptance as someone who is neurodivergent and has seen neurodivergent people and minorities be bullied/discriminated against and also has been bullied themself.
Maybe ask him how he feels that his vote is enabling fascism and that he’s been led down a path? Tell him you’ll accept him calling you as a leftist as an insult if he’ll watch this clip the US DOD put out to help Americans identify fascism after WWII. As him if he can honestly say he doesn’t feel like a sucker for allowing fascism to take root?
https://youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4
Any time he brings up your politics call him a sucker. See if he can’t start working his brain a bit to get out from under it over time, or at least see some of the gaping holes in his view.
He thinks everything not supporting his “side” is fake and left-wing propaganda. I dated someone like that, actually. Didn’t go well but they became very leftist.
Your dad is a member of a cult. It’s fully possible that he’ll never change.
One thing to remember is that you have absolutely no obligation to keep family members in your life. I haven’t spoken to my father since Trump won the election.
I’ve not spoken to him since he moved to a hotel
Yeah, it’s super important for systems that are irrational or benefit some groups more than others, to discourage education, questioning, and substantive debate; they know they would lose. Most religions are like this.