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Thanksgiving Dinner (lemmy.world)

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[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

"but if you were so open minded why won't you listen to Joe Rogan?" Actual point made by Trump supporting relative

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

That's why conservatives use terms they cant define as insults: woke.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

My family all gets along great - no obnoxious relatives, no buried conflicts surfacing, etc. I always wonder how many people's Thanksgivings are like the extremely overworked sitcom trope and how many are just happy get-togethers.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

When I drive, i think about how often people are traveling to places they don't want to go. If only we could all stay in our basements. If only we could be free.

[–] PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world -4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Haha this meme is so Lemmy. "me good guy you bad guy".

[–] ellen_musk_0x@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"but have you considered my racist opinions?"

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Correct, triggered racist.

[–] PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world -3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ya got me.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 6 days ago

Yes, I did.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 306 points 1 week ago (14 children)

They don't think we're open minded and understanding.

They think we're ignorant of how the world works, condescending, and irrationally judgemental.

I'm not saying this is how we ARE, this is just how they view us, and because they view us like that from the very start, there is no opportunity for meaningful dialogue.

It is bi-directional prejudice, and only by acts of understanding and patience and wisdom can that be overcome.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 139 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Agreed, for the most part. I'm never going to be impartial and seek understanding with a racist Nazi. They will have to understand my fist.

[–] krash@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

What if the angle would be that you understand the underlying needs and feelings that are being expressed as support for Nazism?

[–] what_was_not_said@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

“Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.

That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.

They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?”

― A.R. Moxon

[–] ellen_musk_0x@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

What if you showed us evidence for that actually working in any meaningful sense, in order to stop people enabling fascists?

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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 67 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Pretty true, obviously most racist biggots don't see themselves as racist biggots. They don't see us as "open minded" they see us as close minded to their views.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 76 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Depends on the person. I've been told to my face without a hint of irony that "you're so open minded all your brains fell out".

[–] what_was_not_said@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Back in my teens, a Seventh Day Adventist said that to me. I got the better deal in life.

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 118 points 1 week ago (26 children)

Replace the second panel red with “woke and gay”

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Is that this generations version of "fake and gay"?

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Be me

Liberal uncle in conservative/ trump family

Fly to red state for family member’s funeral

Get made fun of by all family members in public at the funeral reception

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 6 days ago

You can, in fact, choose your family. You literally do not need them in your life.

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[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don’t you just hate it when people are compassionate and nonviolent? Hand me my gun

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