Unfortunately it's not the case for my younger brother, he deflects all blame Pewdiepie gets on the news trying to get clicks and feminism; he has watched (unsure if he continues to, I don't see him subscribed) Ben Shapiro and likes him because he "owns the libs" and is an intellectual. He constantly says the N and homophobic F word around me when he's home from school (will be tonight, yay) and I presume around his friends' because in his words, and I'm paraphrasing, "I have black/gay friends in college and they say I can say it, none of my black roommates from Africa care that I say it nor my gay friends, always with you feminists/liberals getting triggered over everything and changing the meaning of words to suit your argument."
*arguing in the car about disproportionate incarceration of minorities, paraphrasing* "Well the stats say 90% (or some crazy statistic) of Blacks in prison today are criminals! You think they would lie about that!? That the Black people in prison didn't land their way their due to violent crime?!"
Other thought-provoking shit he says:
"Climate change exists but not because of fossil fuels but due to extreme temperatures fluxuations in the Earth every couple thousand years."
"I don't hate gay people, I just don't believe they should marry, but if they do (say a friend of his) don't invite me."
"Transgenders are men in women's clothing."
He has a friend that claims gays are a byproduct of sexual abuse and that's why they are gay.
Supports Donald Trump and he can't be wrong ever because he's rich, along with most of his friend group, some even threw a doploraball party and went to the Trump rally three hours away in Duluth, MN as well, in my guess, start shit with the protesters, film it and frame it around "Antifa" violence. I have no proof of this one but considering these were the ones that had a deploraball party, I wouldn't be surprised.
He's 20, too far gone, grew up going to a school that was all right-wing Bush/Romney/Trump-supporting individuals, parents' of classmates voted for Supreme Court and ridding Roe v Wade and tax breaks. Brother watches Pewdiepie and a lot of workout youtubers that I don't know much about but peddle supplements, watches Logan Paul and had watched Syndicate I believe. He's a lost cause and I'm done getting into it with him because all he does is gaslight the conversation and has a pompous, arrogant 20 year old attitude where he staunchly believes everything he says is right and will be hard-presses to change his mind.
I'm tired of getting into yelling matches with him over this shit.