Dear lemmy, someone very close to my heart is starting to fall into conspiracy theories. It’s heartbreaking. Among other things, he has now told me that soy beans are not supposed to be consumed by human beings and is convinced that despite the literal centuries of human soy bean cultivation and consumption, we shouldn’t eat it or anything derived from it for this reason (ie tofu, soy sauce, etc…evidence that soy is present in other common foods doesn’t seem to register with him).
I don’t even know where he got this information from and can’t find a single source to back it up (even disingenuously). I’ve tried explaining to him that sure, in its original state it’s not edible, but undergoes processing (LIKE MANY OTHER FOODS) to become edible. And that this has gone on since at least the 11th century, so it’s not like Big Soy is trying to poison the little people.
He’s normally a very reasonable and intelligent person, and I don’t know how to reach him. I thought it might be helpful to show him where these myths have come from with hard data sources to prove it. He seems open to the possibility, so I don’t think he’s a lost cause yet!
Help?
Yeah hating on soy beans is literally fascism. And probably transphobic as well somehow.
I don’t get you guys anymore. I feel you are so disconnected in your far leftist bubble. Most people just shake their heads and you wonder why the far right is on the rise.
And I literally just bought a big bag of soy…
Hmmm, does it really make sense to say “and you wonder why the far right is on the rise” in this here position?
Of course, I wonder every single day, especially since it has affected me on a personal level as an immigrant, but do you really think the ‘wacky far left’ s behind the far right rising? Lots of leftists took it too far recently, but is that an excuse to start literal fascism? Is a normal healthy person’s response to ‘PC gone mad’ to create six alternative media websites and spout lie upon lie about immigrants then proceed to dehumanize asylum seekers? Is it an excuse for misreading statistics? Is the normal response to go to cesspools far right forums where black people are consistently called “apes” and the n word?
Nobody makes someone alt-right except themselves.
Ok so Europe’s far right is on the rise because everyone suddenly became a hardcore Nazi. It does not have to do with illegal mass immigration leading to enormous socioeconomic problems and the left and center parties ignoring this for decades because they are afraid being immediately labeled nazi