Long story short, my GF is from a race that my bigot father has told me horrible racist shit about for years, just boilerplate Fox News-level analysis of why to hate and fear X race. They met for the first time, and after she left I told him I was uncomfortable introducing them bc of his bigotry. He got all, "I'm not looking at her as X, I'm looking at her as your girlfriend", but I was like "I don't fucking care how you want to justify it, you're a racist bigot and all you're capable of doing is repeating whatever fascist ideology you watch on TV. It doesn't make me feel any better that you think she's 'one of the good ones.'" Then I left.

I've thought that for a long time, finally said it, but I feel horrible about it - it doesn't exactly make me feel good to make an old man feel angry and sad. But at the end of the day it's his own god damn fault for subjecting me to bigoted ideology for decades.

just had to vent a lil bit thanks comrades :meow-hug:

  • Fleshbeast [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I've veered close to this discussion with my own family members...

    The only way I can get them to dial back the bigotry is to point out that everything on TV is bullshit propagated to divide the common people. That can get through to them. Unfortunately, if they just slink off to watch the news after that your progress gets eroded within a week and they are back at it.