Posted on 11/20/2018 11:33:12 AM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
Toxic ideologies often start around family dinner tables. It's not just an uncle saying a racist joke, or a grandmother determining her xenophobic ideas as “a part of her time.” These comments seep into how we make decisions in voting booths, how judges rule in their chambers, how teachers guide students in school classrooms, how employment decisions are made, and how police react in high-stakes situations.
After a year of relentless atrocities that don’t always make for easy conversation at the dinner table, it's important to make Thanksgiving preparations beyond the tablescape and the menu. This year, I want you to prepare for something a little more nuanced than stuffing or cranberry sauce: I want you to prepare to rock the family boat, with important discussions that stretch beyond the surface of “How's the weather?” and “Who are you dating these days?” So, I'm coming to you with a guide that should push you beyond apathy, and instead, teach you how to be a part of the solution. As Angela Davis reminds us, it is not enough to not be racist. You have to be anti-racist, and if you are not actively being part of the solution, then you are a part of the problem. So here is some language to help you navigate Thanksgiving day dinner.
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Yes, because we all want to be like terrorist Angela Davis.
Here’s how I discuss racism in America
” you don’t know any racist your family doesn’t know any racist I don’t know any racist.
I’m certain there are a few racist bastards out there but, again, you and I don’t know any so shut the hell up”
Or start naming the people specifically and their Acts particularly
See link in Post #15. Today is the 5th anniversary.
What young Americans need to know about this is - the Left has steeped in Neo-marxism and critical theory for so long, white perfidy, white sin, and white hate are now commonly accepted pillars of their ideology.
That means, white boys and girls, in their eyes, you are congenitally flawed from birth. You are guilty. You can only work to overcome this defect, but its always there. Its a very dangerous ideology and it marks you as a target.
That’s how the Left views you.
That’s what you need to understand.
We make the liberals in my family sit at the kiddie table.
How to ruin a holiday in ONE easy lesson.
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Will these people ever understand that there is a time and a place to leave their politics out of it? Can’t talk about the weather anymore, can’t talk about football anymore, can’t talk about sex anymore, it’s all subject to their draconian set of arbitrary rules designed to favor their constituencies. Sick of it.
I don't believe that people should be given special benefits because of the color of their skin. That's one reason I didn't vote for Obama; and would never vote for Elizabeth Warren.
I have been called a racist.
There he is!
Isn’t he on The Big Bang Theory?
Do people of color ever tell jokes about people not of color or use racist/derogatory terms like honkie, whitie, gringo (hatefully), etc? Do they sit around the table and caution each other not to do that?
I once asked a Chinese girl for her number. She said, “Sex! Sex! Sex! Free sex tonight!”
I said, “Wow!”
Then her friend said, “She means 666-3629.”
Good ‘Un ...
Easy, tell them about the Democrat Party’s history of systemic racism in America:
*Slavery
*Jim Crow Segregation Laws
*The KKK
*Japanese internment camps
*Voting against the ‘64 CRA
*Voting against the ‘65 VRA
*Celebrating racists as mentors and role models (Margaret Sanger and Dem Sen. Robert Byrd)
This should take you well into dessert!
How it would fly at a real family dinner is something the author of this piece will never know. These are fantasy dialogues. Ideological porn if you will.
Our grandparents, parents and your mother and I never owned a slave, and no one today bitching about racism, ever picked cotton.
So lets just move on.
Probably will. I'm betting we'll hear about some family member who did a relative in with the carving knife, for some ridiculous reason.
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