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Y'all, I'm tired of trying to talk with my Dad about the US, cuz he'll say the we're struggling, and I'll chip in with a statistic (this time it was that the average income for an American is under $40K a year after taking out the top thousand people), and he'll start trying to explain how it's the fault of immigrants, or black people, or women, or queer people.
Mom's kinda mildly upset that I don't really talk with him, and I've tried to explain to her that not only do I disagree with him (them, but she's a bit calmer in her bigotry), but I myself am hurt by what he says (as a bisexual woman-ish person). And what does she say, Everytime? That he's had a different life, and that he's older, and that he doesn't have the same capacity for emotions as I do.
I can respect that to a certain degree, but we're not about to pretend like that shit doesn't actually fuckin harm people- and not just "hurting their sensitive feelings"- people are killed because of this kind of blaming and hate these people with "less capacity for difference" spew