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Originally Posted by mickey100
There's another movie I plan on streaming. It's called "The Brainwashing of my Dad". It's about a normal guy, a loving father, who became addicted to rightwing hate news and became a different person - angry and paranoid, a right wing fanatic, who became difficult to spend time with. I think many of us have a friend or family member like that.
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You just described to a T, the guy who shot the black kid last month. Which one, the kid who went to a house and knocked on the door, why was he there? To pick up his little brothers. Only he was one street over, from the correct one.
The shooters grandson said that he and his grandfather used to be close but grew distant in recent years over what he described as his grandfather’s radicalization via conservative media. Ludwig told The Kansas City Star that Lester had “become staunchly right-wing,” going “further down the right-wing rabbit hole as far as doing the election-denying conspiracy stuff and Covid conspiracies and disinformation, fully buying into the Fox News, OAN [One America News Network] kind of line.” Ludwig suggested that the “24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia” has “radicalized him in a lot of ways.”