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I had the *nearly exact* same experience at my FIL’s Thanksgiving. It’s all fun and games with husband’s dad’s side until the useless and where-exactly-did-this-even-come-from racism starts to emerge. Even the more enlightened Family Matriarchs (the 4 sisters, including husband’s grandmother) felt like they had to

oh my. deep breaths.

I am one of four children. For various reasons, none of us could go home for Thanksgiving (none of us were eager to either because, while we all vary politically, my parents are psychotically conservative and have been very alienating lately). For the first time in 31 years, my parents spent Thanksgiving alone.

Prior to attending his Connecticut family’s thanksgiving, my boyfriend briefed me with with the following: his brother and his wife believe gay people are pedophiles, everyone over forty voted for trump, and all the trump voters are obsessed with Pizza Gate.

Oh geez. We had friend-thanksgiving this year because we moved far from home. It was hosted by friends of ours who had other friends we didn’t know also in attendance. After dinner two of the people, whom I did not know, got into a fight— a PHYSICAL fight. They were yelling and shit talking and one threatened the

I think you’re crediting him with way too much knowledge and intelligence.

I think you’re crediting him with way too much knowledge and intelligence.

People also seem to look to the % of abortions among women of color as a potentially racist issue, and I can actually see where they’re coming from, but I think the reality is so much more complex than “population control”— having control over your reproduction is intimately tied to having control over your economic

Meka Leka Hi Meka Hiney Ho!

Perfect use of this one!

PP acknowledges that Sanger held some horrific beliefs. Her beliefs have nothing to do with the services they provide now. Unfortunately many things were founded by people who held shitty beliefs.

Yeah. I agree with that. Understanding part of the history of PP and how racism intersects there, too, is valid. But, it’s also important to recognise how the organisation has progressed away from those ideologies, too.

Ha! Eugenics Levy.

White people eat there,too. Micky D’s promotes the eating of unhealthy and tasteless food.

It is my theory that fame causes brain damage.

Because it promotes an unhealthy diet to minorities?

McDonald’s is Eugenics? Public school are eugenics? Words do not have a meaning anymore, I’d like fish in my coffee, hat!