But it’s that exact type of selfish passivity—the complete and total avoidance of any hot-button issue at family gatherings—that begins, if not accelerates, the normalization process for the racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic and other discriminatory behaviors that plague our nation today. It’s passive indifference to unsavory ideas, people, and beliefs of our family members that enable and incubate them. Just as the uneasy silence from your dad’s sole “black friend” is used as justification for his support for Donald Trump, your silence at the dinner table will be used to assuage any concerns about racial bias.
Thanksgiving is a time for reflection and family, but that luxury isn’t afforded to all Americans when many are living in fear due to a sudden increase in racist and anti-Semitic incidents following Trump’s election.
So, how does Jordan think people should behave at family gatherings?
While passing the green bean casserole to your grandpa, remind him that it’s white homegrown terrorists, not Muslims, that have killed more Americans than “Jihadists” since 9/11.
Oh, there’s more…
Before everyone rushes to the couch for football and post-meal naps, disprove your relatives’ false narratives of minorities committing most of the crimes by showing them that in the most diverse cities in the country, hate crimes are going way up while other crimes have fallen.
Well, I guess that’s one way to ensure you never get invited back…
Unsavoury ideas, eh? People who didn’t vote the “right” way… Jeebus, what a pompous, self-righteous, arrogant, preening prig. A prig who thinks people should spend a family gathering lecturing people on political correctness. I bet he’s a bundle of laughs.
God, but these people are really, really bad losers.
When you read stuff like this, it becomes quickly apparent why The Independant is going down the karsey so quickly.
He’s a bit of a useless student if he doesn’t think to update his data. Even accepting the New America Foundation report’s figures at face value, the Florida gay nightclub massacre has clearly tipped the numbers in favour of jihadists. Normalising the numbers according to the size of the population would emphasise just how deadly the Muslim population is relative to other groups and provide support for the notion that these followers of an evil, barbaric, Medieval culture are best not allowed to settle in civilised countries.
“since 9/11.”
Didn’t want to include the figures for that then eh?
Well, that and the Florida massacre DocBud mentions rather spoils the narrative, doesn’t it?
This is like the paranoia about reds under the bed of nineteen fifties America but in reverse. It’s totally terrifying, there are people out there that aren’t left wing loons like us. It’s rabid racists under the bed instead.
To be honest, my relatives are a very moderate and tolerant bunch so these kind of problems simply don’t arise.