Yeah I mean in my dad’s case that’s pretty much it. He’s a bigot and he hated Arabs/muslims before this situation and it was just a post hoc excuse for that hatred. Nothing could really be done, least by the media, to change that.

He is also… objectively… one of the single dimmest human beings I’ve ever met in my life.

He has very little capacity for reasoning or noticing contradictions. He is capable of holding a dizzying amount of opinions that can be diametrically opposed to one another so I also think his comprehension just isn’t there to understand the point the interviewee was making.

As another example, the bit in the Bible where it says something about hating someone enough to just call them a fool was akin to committing murder in their heart… he took to literally mean calling someone the word fool was like spiritual murdering someone. Not that being angry was wrong, the word fool was the issue and he got extremely angry at me for calling him a fool one time in a joking, Mr.t kinda way