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I had some downright ghoulish coworkers at my old district that would cackle about bloodshed in the middle east as a bunch of (slurs slurs slurs) killing each other nonstop because they are (ableistic slurs slurs slurs) and found it "funny" and even said it was "popcorn" for them while watching CNN.
Ghouls. Fucking ghouls.
Thankfully my dad isn't this bad. He doesn't like the fact that it's happening but having to see and hear about it is bad and protesting is going too far. He has 0 material analysis of why its happening, only that it should stop by way of Hamas being destroyed for being "terrorists". He doesn't like the Israelis either but he would never call them terrorists
Treat interruption is a high crime and misdemeanor for brunch liberals, that's for sure.
"What if BLM made me late for work? I would (tacticool fantasy of murder revenge here)" so went one conversation after the George Floyd protests.
Sometimes I think I should take my lunch in the staff lounge as the tech guy instead of our office, but I don't need to know how incredibly reactionary some of my piers are.
I wanted to eat my lunch in my own classroom, but there was some petty school-specific rule against it so I had to hear, for years, about which murderfucker was on the Iron Throne that week, or about how epic this one SV moment was. Totally not condoning it while gobbling it up and oinking all the while, of course.