firelordderpy:

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egaylitarian:

@ y’all

How To Talk Politics At Thanksgiving:

1) Fucking Don’t

2) If you must, fuck you.

Definitely talk politics at Thanksgiving. Put your racist moms, dads, aunts, uncles, grandparents, siblings, and cousins to the moral grinder.

Congratulations, you’re the person nobody wants to see.

How To Talk Politics at Thanksgiving:

1) Don’t.

2) If you must, Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful for family and good things that happened this year, it is not a time to be angry at your family or to own them with facts and the Moral Meat Grinder.

3) If you must debate Politics be respectful, be polite, if ANYONE’s voices start to get the slightest bit raised, change the subject immediately, even if you were only halfway done owning your racist uncle.

4) The Cranberry sauce is more attractive to flies than the Vinegar dressing. Throwing facts at your family in a smug way will not change anyone’s minds, throwing catchphrases and buzzwords will just annoy them. If you want to use this opportunity to try and correct your uncle’s beliefs, do it in a kind respectful way and in the right place.

5) DO NOT DEBATE AT THE TABLE. Seriously, the table is the most important and stressful part of the event for those who hosted it, your mother, grandmother, aunts, uncles, father, grandpa, EVERYONE worked hard to make the feast. If you’re talking about politics at the table you are throwing that cranberry pie in the face of those who worked so hard to make it. Shut up, enjoy the food, and save the debating for before or after.

6) Always have a better relationship with the people after Thanksgiving than you did before. When you leave your family’s house after Thanksgiving, you should have gotten closer to the people in your family, not further apart. If talking politics caused you to drift away from them, then that was a failure and you lost the Spirit of Thanksgiving. If expressing and debating politics made them respect you and grow closer, even if they disagree, then you did well. It is possible to disagree and still be close, it’s possible that a good debate can create bonds of kinship, but it’s not easy and if you can’t do it, see point number 1.

This can also apply to other holidays and family gatherings in general really.

Leave politics at the door.