Posted on 11/21/2018 4:44:06 PM PST by TigerClaws
I will definitely call out my racist, leftist family members.
JoMa
Ah, so do I. Was that when Pajama Boy debuted, or just before?
Either way, that was the year that my layabout, loser brother-in-law had a glass of wine too many and tried to stir the rhetorical pot. He's the sort that seems to believe that raising your voice improves your argument. I just calmly responded point by point, adding colorful on-point comments that I had absorbed right here on FR. I had fun with it, and before long he fell silent and I got up to make a pot of coffee.
My mom followed me into the kitchen and said: "In high school, you used to complain about the teacher who talked you into joining the Debate Team". I just smiled and shrugged.
Mid-Obama term, I had to lay down the law with some relatives. My kids, my house, my rules.
If you can respectfully disagree, you can sit at my table.
If you want to argue with me online, fine.
But don’t come into my house, call me all kinds of names in front of my kids, and say it is political debate.
I’m basically the only conservative in my family.For years I’ve refrained from talking politics with family both in order to keep peace *and* because I know that I’d never change any minds.
> You’re Morally Obligated to Call Out Your Racist Relatives at Thanksgiving
We (Freepers) are ALL Morally Obligated to Call Out useful idiots who parrot Fake News and the CommieCrat party line anytime, anywhere.
I do.
We have lived across the country from each other, making it financially unfeasible to be together for just one day.
We will honor our son who passed away unexpectedly in February and left us a darling young grand daughter who is 18 months old. She and her mother will attend tomorrow's dinner for the first time.
Our daughter has finally moved from Arizona to a home five miles away from our Florida farm after a decade apart. She and her partner and some friends will be at our home for dinner tomorrow, as well.
My family will give thanks for our blessings and pray for those who haven't fared as well.
So you see, we will not ruin our time together for Thanksgiving dinner, by trying to solve the liberals' problems with racism, whatever they may be.
As usual, the Left picks the wrong time and the wrong forum to deal with their "perceived issues".
Thanksgiving dinner is not a time to call out family members who you think are racists. Especially since the Left has made it a habit of calling everyone who supports Trump a racist.
All the more reason to beat the living hell out of your lib relatives so they never come back.
You forgot the barf alert in the title.
That thing is more full of BS and outright lies than just about anything I’ve read in a long time.
We have a south hating brigade who do the same here day after day
Tolerated
None of them contribute much else
But only discuss white racism real and imagined.
While you ignore virulent violent black race hatred of whites which results in thousands and thousands of violent attacks including hate rapes, murders, home invasions, mob beatdowns, carjackings etc,etc
>> The Thanksgiving table has long served as a rhetorical battleground for American families.
No, it has not.
Agree. I’ve never talked politics at holidays.
Spend time with family. Catch up on their lives.
Leftists have no religion but politics. Lot of mental problems going on with the most active ones as well.
Denouncing family members for incorrect thinking...seems like we have seen this before in Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Castro’s Cuba and a host of other totalitarian regimes.
I save my politics for FR, the voting booth, and few close friends — otherwise, I keep my mouth shut out of general respect for others.
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
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