Thanks for asking the question about which influences conservative culture more: out-group-near/out-group-far or oppositional defiance. In family members' posts on Griner/Whelan, they are angry that one American was chosen over another. The posts used images of Griner that evoke images of black Americans in prison/court but the images do…
Thanks for asking the question about which influences conservative culture more: out-group-near/out-group-far or oppositional defiance. In family members' posts on Griner/Whelan, they are angry that one American was chosen over another. The posts used images of Griner that evoke images of black Americans in prison/court but the images don't note that the court is Russian. The image of Whelan is not of a human who stole social security numbers & defrauded others to be convicted by a military court, but it is an image of the strait-laced, medaled-Marine. Biden chose the American that looks least like them (Griner) over the American that looks most like my family (Whelan). At a deep level, these family members are mourning that their identity is no longer highly prized by their own children & America generally. This family interprets their own children coming out as gay as a rejection of their way of life as well.
It's more than simple oppositional defiance or out-group-near/out-group-far, I suspect. It is a fear that they themselves are no longer valued in the same way by the youth in their own lives. They can't even influence their own children to choose their lifestyle & become straight. The generational shifts run deep & they are vast.
Thanks for asking the question about which influences conservative culture more: out-group-near/out-group-far or oppositional defiance. In family members' posts on Griner/Whelan, they are angry that one American was chosen over another. The posts used images of Griner that evoke images of black Americans in prison/court but the images don't note that the court is Russian. The image of Whelan is not of a human who stole social security numbers & defrauded others to be convicted by a military court, but it is an image of the strait-laced, medaled-Marine. Biden chose the American that looks least like them (Griner) over the American that looks most like my family (Whelan). At a deep level, these family members are mourning that their identity is no longer highly prized by their own children & America generally. This family interprets their own children coming out as gay as a rejection of their way of life as well.
It's more than simple oppositional defiance or out-group-near/out-group-far, I suspect. It is a fear that they themselves are no longer valued in the same way by the youth in their own lives. They can't even influence their own children to choose their lifestyle & become straight. The generational shifts run deep & they are vast.