Posted on 08/08/2019 8:17:39 PM PDT by Morgana
In an almost 3,000 word screed in Huffington Post, writer Hannah Selinger announced to the world “It Might Be Time To Cut My Right-Wing, Trump-Loving In-Laws Out Of My Kids’ Lives” on Wednesday.
The daughter-in-law from Hell accuses her husband’s parents of racism, sexism, homophobia, and even “veiled anti-Semitism,” because “Telling a Jewish person how much you love Jewish people is, on its face, a message of marginalization.” She also complains that her father-in-law once left the room when two men kissed on TV and muttered “Disgusting,” under his breath – GASP! – within earshot of her son! (I can tell you from personal experience that discomfort with homosexuality on TV is not limited to bigoted Trump supporters as I’ve witnessed this same thing from liberal older family members who are addicted to MSNBC and rabidly anti-Trump.)
Selinger seems to suffer from an extreme lack of self-awareness combined with a myopic self-centeredness. She needs to put herself in the other side’s shoes. After all, how many of us can say this exact same thing about our deranged liberal friends and relatives:
I can’t just pretend they aren’t who they are. They have become completely indoctrinated, and, what’s worse, they don’t really seem to care. They know, fully, that there are consequences to all of this. But still they pursue a course of belief that seems at odds with morality.
She seems to think that everything is uniquely bad and uniquely Trump’s fault, when the truth is her little liberal bubble was popped and she only recently started noticing the world the way it’s always been. Conservatives have been putting up with intolerant liberal relatives for decades. Yet for her, this is intolerable:
I can’t just go on pretending that we’re a normal family. It’s not like I can just leave them with the kids for the night and hope they don’t say something awful about a marginalized group of people while I’m out enjoying a martini with my husband. That safety has been stolen from both of us.
She is aghast that her “in-laws oppose abortion in any and all circumstances, but they appear unbothered by the idea of migrant kids in cages at the country’s border.” This is just petty politics. We can be upset by multiple things at a time, but why should conservatives be uniquely stained morally for actions President Obama took several years ago that liberals only just recently came around to discovering?
All of us pro-lifers have cherished friends and family members who support or even have participated in the purposeful destruction of unborn human life. Liberal logic would ask, “How do you even tolerate being near such bad, evil people?!” and say our silence is “being complicit.” Instead, we separate the person from the abhorrent belief and love them anyway, realizing that good people can believe and even do horrible things. Why can’t we get the same respect from liberals?
Selinger goes on about her in-laws embracing conspiracy theories, “The media sources they ingest, of course, are intentionally dishonest, and our conversations with them reveal a view of the world that’s disturbingly removed from reality.”
This can easily be said of the other side. Funny how she pretends the left doesn’t have its own destructive conspiracy theories – Russian collusion anyone? The likes of CNN and MSNBC had older folks so riled up they worried about dying before the Mueller Report came out!
Again, Selinger sees her liberally biased interpretation of events in the news as moral lines that cannot be crossed while assuming the very worst possible motivations. Here she boils her choice down to either banishing her in-laws or Nazi revivalism:
I don’t want my boys to grow up without their grandparents, but I also don’t want them to grow up thinking that children belong in cages or that “Go back where you came from” is anything short of a dog whistle to Nazi revivalism.
She thinks those who “support the same ideas” as President Trump are bad people with "repugnant" politics:
I can tell my children, definitively, that the man we call president is a bad person. Can I say that about their grandparents, who support the same ideas? But what if it’s true? … I also find their politics — and how they manifest in what they say and share — repugnant. This is a matter, now, of fundamental human decency.
No, ma’am, it is a matter of fundamental human decency to allow family members to have their own opinions and not think any less of them for seeing the world differently from the way you do. You talk about “tolerance,” well, practice what you preach.
The only good news is that Selinger hasn’t officially cut off her in-laws … yet. So I’m left wondering, what is the point of this article other than virtue signaling and attempting to publicly shame them? Writing in HuffPost will no doubt win her broad support and validation from fellow leftist nutjobs who can’t tell the difference between opinion and fact – perhaps this is what she seeks: permission from the liberal mob to finally disown them.
Inasmuch as I spent much of my military career OCONUS, I knew any number of men/ladies, who were married by familial contract when they were CHILDREN.
(Among many Amer-Indian cultures of the Eastern Woodland People, the mothers/grandmothers/female elders of the tribe APPROVE/DISAPPROVE OF matches for girls/warriors & bride-prices had to be paid to the bride’s mother. = Those tribes are matriarchal societies. = In some A-I Nations, a boy’s mother owns everything except his horse(s), clothing & weapons until he marries. At his marriage, his mother transfers his property to his bride. - That WISE system assures that if a warrior dies that the wife/wives & children are NOT left destitute & pitiful.)
One young matron who worked in my office told my secretary that she “truly feels sorry for” girls who did NOT grow up KNOWING which boy that she was contracted to as a bride.
Yours, TMN78247
“QUESTION: Are you perhaps my lost twin sister?? = You seem to usually beat me to posting essentially the same things, repeatedly.”
I take it we had the same Grandmother? :)
Only if your grandmother was a full-blood or “near full-blood” Amer-Indian, suffragette & “sometime jail-bird” for women’s rights.
She was also, in her youth, a mother of three, a widow at 27YO, a skilled horsewoman, teacher & a hunter.
To say the least, my grandmother was “pretty much of a character”, as she didn’t seem to mind being arrested/locked-up for protesting the LACK of LEGAL RIGHTS for Indians & women circa 1900-1940.
(My maternal grandfather said of her, “There is so much good in the worst of us & so much bad in the best of us, that it’s hard to decide who is who” & “Nettie Mae is a hellion. I like her very much, as my dear Esther did BUT certainly I would NOT have wanted to wed her.”)
Yours, TMN78247
true! some of the best TV shows have been ruined by homo sex. Not necessary to show that crap.
Dunno about that...We got cut off from all contact with our grandson after the election. Same stupid reasoning from an idiot leftist.
Don’t mind so much about the DIL...just hate the abuse of the child being forced to believe in leftist lies and nonsense.
So, yeah, it happens.
does it rhyme with wussy?
I lost my family because I am not liberal. And some friends too. I don’t regret it.
Yes, Kelly Anne needs to ditch that loser.
What kind of a man tolerates this kind of disrespectful conduct from his wife???? Crazy.
How can people so filled with hate, resentment, arrogance, and paranoia make it through their daily lives without collapsing from the emotional toll? Leftists really make me wonder sometimes, since so many of them seem angry and unstable—and yes, very intollerant of others they disagree with.
NOT much of any sort of man, imo.
Yours, TMN78247
Damn...the woman does drone on...and on...and...
Perhaps he feels the same way as this imbecile.
“Her husband is the problem. He allowed this bitch to slander his parents in print.”
You got this right! The husband is a worthless liberal with his balls in his wife’s purse.
“We rewrote our will a couple years ago and cut out my three nieces and a nephew based on their ultra-left Facebook and Twitter posts. I love them, but there’s no way they’ll receive our money and then support liberal causes with it. NFW.”
Great move that makes me feel thankful that my kids lean to the right.
“I lost my family because I am not liberal. And some friends too. I don’t regret it.”
Good job. That takes true conviction to stick by your guns. I have a cousin that I was once close too that has gone full lib-tard. I cut him out. I also have no liberal friends and do NOT regret it one bit! If the rest of the world wants to be led to hell by Godless Socialists, I will not follow.
Yep, that Pope who referred to the Jews as "Our beloved elder brethren" was really "marginalizing" them!
Yes, children can detect excess stridency in their mother and will often behave the opposite in response as adults. I say this from personal experience.
As for hubby, his bride was a lefty knockout who rode him like a bronco 10 years ago before marriage, so any man can put up with her political zeal, right?
The poor fellow is in for a rough time when his lefty missus turns 40. For most women, sexual desire drops to zero as menopause approaches, and this is not the kind of woman who will give it up just because she loves her husband.
Works both ways.We had a family dinner and our 5 year old Grandson said.”Trump is a bad man”.When asked he said other Grandmom taught him that.Guess who doesn’t see him unless the parents are there.
Well at least she didn’t accuse them of Bullying Her for having a difference of opinion, LIKE SHE IS!!!
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