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Re: do you discuss politics with your friends?

[ariakas]

Friends, yes. Family, no. I can pick and choose my friends, so if one of them starts banging on about the evil baby-killing gay muslims taking over da gubbamint or slides on a fedora and starts quoting Ayn Rand I can drop them like a hot rock. With family it's harder. I've unfollowed about half of my family members on Facebook because they keep posting just completely idiotic, demonstrably false bullshit that supports their political beliefs and I wouldn't be able to look them in eye at Christmas if I kept reading that drivel.

My friends are also my age and roughly my education level, so if I call them a moron for saying something moronic it's no big - I might get the same in return if I say something moronic next week. But my family is by and large uneducated yet the older members expect their views to be treated with respect because they believe they have "authority" over younger family members by virtue of simply being older. So when my anti-vaccine uncle starts his spiel about Big Pharma and mercury and YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S IN IT and I give him a verbal smackdown he's sorely affronted (and will try to lash out at me and cause drama for weeks).

So yeah. I basically don't talk about anything political with family members, ever, aside from the few (who aren't morons) whom I would call friends, and with whom I can have a reasoned debate when we disagree without someone screaming, telling the other person they should die, or using the Bible as an authoritative source for scientific knowledge.

(Instead, I save my discussion for their children, all of whom I am successfully converting into rational people behind their parents' backs. Ahahahahahahah. Your little darling doesn't think same sex marriage is morally equivalent to bestiality, Aunt Redneck Go-Fuck-Yourself. Now what are you going to do?)