• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Marianne Williamson

    She’s also a horrible person. She promoted woo woo alternative medicine and said diseases were just a “psychic scream” from our body because we didn’t love it enough. Gay men dying of AIDS stopped taking their medicine because they thought taking it meant that they didn’t trust their body. They died thinking they just didn’t love themselves enough.

    And when she was asked about this, she became super defensive and abrasive. A normal person who finds out their words have inadvertently caused suffering would be horrified by it. Instead, she claims she didn’t say what she directly wrote in her book.

    • awkpen@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Fair point, but she is getting a lot of notice and support from the younger crowd and the fact that she doesn’t even get listed in the mainstream media (while Trump and RFK Jr get publicity), which adds to why the younger generations are just completely disillusioned by the media and both parties. Remember how Hilary’s mocking of Sanders’ supporters was normalized by the media and even publicity since then, which makes many think that we dodged a bullet with Hilary losing, even though Trump was far far worse because both look like narcissistic jerks that gave us no real options in 2016 to anyone under 50 (and quite a few older than 50 at this point, I suspect). Having one side seem so far right that they make them look like part of the Nazi party doesn’t help the Democratic party get away from clearly being to the right of Reagan Republicans of the 1980s in most cases. We just have a much slower descent to corporate rule instead of at least trying to reverse it.