Angry, and not sure how to handle it
My extended family in Alabama is a bunch of close-minded, right-wing, religiously intolerant bigots. There are exceptions within the family, but the majority fall into this category. It's a trait that has driven me crazy for years, and ultimately figured heavily in my moving across the country from them - less opportunities for my blood pressure to go up. :)
Unfortunately, they all have email now, and they all love to forward things. And they are all of the mindset that if they read it somewhere, it must be true. Period.
I received an email (forwarded to the entire family, of course) from my cousin today, which claimed that Barack Obama is a radical Wahabbist Muslim, educated in a madrassa in Indonesia, who has a secret campaign to "destroy the US from the inside out, what better way to start than at the highest level - through the President of the United States, one of their own!!!!"
This kind of @#&*^$#@ makes me crazy. My cousin didn't research it to see if a grain of truth was in it - he just forwarded it to our entire family. And of course, it's all a bunch of "bullhockey", to quite my Uncle Frank, another staunch right-wing email believer. Obama has an entire page about it on his site ( http://obama.senate.gov/press/070123-debunked_insigh/index.php )if you are interested in reading it. Snopes has a page on it too, as does CNN.
This kind of thing makes me so angry!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why doesn't my family have the brains to research a thing for themselves, instead of believing hate propaganda?
GRRRRRRRRR.....
Unfortunately, they all have email now, and they all love to forward things. And they are all of the mindset that if they read it somewhere, it must be true. Period.
I received an email (forwarded to the entire family, of course) from my cousin today, which claimed that Barack Obama is a radical Wahabbist Muslim, educated in a madrassa in Indonesia, who has a secret campaign to "destroy the US from the inside out, what better way to start than at the highest level - through the President of the United States, one of their own!!!!"
This kind of @#&*^$#@ makes me crazy. My cousin didn't research it to see if a grain of truth was in it - he just forwarded it to our entire family. And of course, it's all a bunch of "bullhockey", to quite my Uncle Frank, another staunch right-wing email believer. Obama has an entire page about it on his site ( http://obama.senate.gov/press/070123-debunked_insigh/index.php )if you are interested in reading it. Snopes has a page on it too, as does CNN.
This kind of thing makes me so angry!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why doesn't my family have the brains to research a thing for themselves, instead of believing hate propaganda?
GRRRRRRRRR.....