My parents have become insufferable.

that poster has already tried to derail the support thread I set up.... 😥

If anyone else fancies engaging to keep it on track and ignore bad faith posters you are welcome!....

Don't talk crap. Did you mean to be so rude? I wasn’t talking about you getting swept up in anything.
I was responding to the post that I highlighted to say it isn’t about age, it’s across the board.
Now if you don’t mind, focus on posts where people are replying to you before making it about yourself.

This has happened to my parents friends and some of my friends parents.
Last year some that use social media were posting conspiracy theories nearly daily about Kier Starmer controlling us.
One of DDs friends has a much older father (late 60s) and last time i dropped her off he spoke to me about turkeys voting for christmas and how reform is the only answer and going on and on about offensive things I shouldn’t write down. Since he retired he spends the day on Tik tok news.
My own parents (late 60s and late 70s) are liberals and although they’ve got more set in their ways in other areas, routines, food etc, their political/social views have not changed.

I feel much the same way about people who endlessly talk about their children. Or football.

Am I fuck. Jog on.

I'm swept up with nothing because I don't hate people on benefits and I don't believe the anti migrant bollocks. Don't talk crap. Right wing rubbish. Dog whistling. The NHS saved my mum's life and it put me back together when I had a serious accident.

You mean racists are whipping up hate yes

Then you're the problem.

We're in our 60s and are nothing like this. We don't even watch TV news.
However, I do notice some of my friends are more likely to talk about their ailments as they get older, and I swear I'll never be like that, because it's so incredibly tedious!

I don't think so.

Have you ever considered, OP, that your parents might be right?

It is common these days for people of all ages to be swept up by the constant media. Growing waiting lists, boat crossings, lack of action, they are fuelling emotions in people. I know more than a few people much younger who have a pain in their neck with service delays, higher taxes and cost cutting measures, working to have nothing at the end of the month. Watching the government find money pay to put up 1000’s of men in hotels, no GP appointments, huge waiting lists and an ever growing benefit bill.
I have stopped watching the news. I never watched GB anyway but like others I’m fed up with the cost of living crisis. We use to enjoy the occasional treat, it creates frustration,

I have one of those in my family. I've never really understood competitive illness

@BruFord, my grandmother was a great one for capping others' illnesses - no-one could have had it worse than her or another family member. One day, my dad was telling her about a work colleague who had had an illness and, sadly, died as a result. Quick as a flash, Grandma responded with: "well it couldn't have been as bad as our so and so." My dad immediately replied: "the poor man died of it. Just how bad does it have to be?" 😆

Yes, mine are exactly the same.

I've set it up here under a different username :)

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/relationships/5578946-support-thread-for-those-dealing-with-intolerant-or-racist-parents

All are welcome!! Please feel free to keep it going if I don't log in. I'm not too regular a poster on MN these days...

My parents are not like this but I have other family members who are. What really strikes me is how angry and unhappy they are. I really think that having GB news on a constant cycle has made them quite unwell. The content is designed to make people angry and it works.

My mum is the same watches gb news all day has health problems that she won’t do anything about. Thinks Nigel farage is going to save the uk. Has loads of health problems so won’t go out and do things or have any kind of life but also won’t go to the doctors because it’s too long to wait.
My in-laws are the opposite in their 70’s and 80’s still go to groups and on breaks and holidays their outlook on life is very different. I don’t know what the answer is. I got myself into a bit of a rut with worrying about her last year and this year I’ve just decided to let her crack on because I know for a fact she didn’t have this worry with her own parents.

Not my parents but my friend who has just turned 70 and seems to have totally lost her filter. I’ve known her for 20years and I’m not quite sure what’s going on, I’ve thought she might have the startings of dementia. I’ve told her that her comments are rascist but she doesn’t even seem to notice.

Id be up for this! It would help me get through my Dad's visits!

and we have every right to vocalise our concerns about language like this coming from people we love.

It’s not immigration it’s an invasion that we’re all paying for. They have every right to vocalise their concerns.

I hear you! Are we related??? It’s just so tiresome

You know what's especially gross in my Dad's case, is he automatically assumes horrible things about people's character as well as being horrible about their appearance.

Given that this man has a habit of saying the most horrifically offensive things he can think of "to wind you up" this example isnt especially 'bad' but I can't stop thinking about it.

We were driving back from a dog walk last month in a very rural area and a woman was sitting on the ground on the corner of a farm track.

Thinking aloud I said "oh my god is she okay? Shall I stop?"

He said "no"

So I stopped and it became obvious she a) had bare feet and b) was pregnant.

Dad just muttered "on drugs" and didn't get out the car while I went to speak to her, just looked at his phone.

Later on I wonder aloud what ever had happened that a pregnant woman had ended up so distraught and in the middle of nowhere.

He grumbled "she's been dumped".

He didn't speak a single word to this person, he barely looked at her. She was literally barefoot and pregnant and weeping.

And I just thought to myself after that "I might love you Dad, but you are completely horrible"