I might be wrong, but based on how Christmas went, I’m already expecting my relatives to be strongly supporting the ongoing genocide. They’ve made comments in years past about how all Muslims should be killed. I have a feeling this is going to be lovely.

If this is the case, and this could totally be wrong, I’m anticipating that I’ll be getting up from the table and this’ll be my last thanksgiving with them. I already told my parents after Christmas they can have me for one holiday this year because I can barely tolerate my relatives.

Again, things could go totally fine and we just all eat food and catch up. Thanksgiving might have better chances than Christmas.

I hope that’ll be the case. But my family is an excellent argument for God being made up.

I’m just venting and don’t really know where to put it at the moment.

  • xkforce@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    7 months ago

    Unless you are literally forced to be there, why the hell are you choosing to be around these people? Because they share DNA with you?

  • W.itjust.works@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    7 months ago

    Just because there is common blood/relations, what does that mean people are ‘owed’? Live your best life, best of luck shaking the weight.

    • bloopernova@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      Also, a good way to shut down dogwhistles is to feign ignorance and ask them to explain what they mean. They get flustered when they have to say the quiet parts out loud.

      • spaceghoti@lemmy.oneMEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        Since 2015, being horribly bigoted has been normalized. A lot of the MAGA crowd delight in admitting they want to see every person of color and competing religion drawn, quartered, hung, and burned to ash.

    • spaceghoti@lemmy.oneMEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      A fun way to turn their arguments around is to quote horrible bible verses (https://www.evilbible.com/) and attribute them to the Qu’ran. Get them going until you start quoting verses they recognize. “Oh wait, I guess that was from the Bible all along!”

  • DougHolland@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    Breaking away is sometimes the right thing to do, and from what you’re saying, OP, maybe you should break away before Turkey Day, not after.

    I broke away for 13 years, enjoyed things better without them than with them. By the time I came back, some of the family had mellowed, others had died, and we actually have decent holidays now. It gets better.

  • RedditReject@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    My comment to anyone that brings it up at work is just to say “I’m on the side that’s not killing kids.”. It usually just shuts them up.