Since it is relevant to this post I'm black and 40 years old. The last few days I tried to give some pushback against my cousins (have an extremely large extended family) who are left wing. Outside my immediate family most of my cousins are left of center. One got mad at me for asking him to be consistent and saying that you can't condemn the storming of the capitol while also cheerleading the rioting and destruction this past summer. Of course he mentioned peaceful protests and I agreed that there were peaceful demonstrations (even though they peddled a fake racial and cop narrative) but the fact remains that not once did he ever show any empathy for business owners whose businesses were destroyed.
Also gave some pushback to the whole "this is white privilege" nonsense by pointing out all the cities who bent over backward to avoid holding any BLM/Antifa members accountable. So I'm not the most liked person right now in my group of cousins.
Last year one of my cousins got mad at me for posting a Larry Elder quote that vague concepts like micro-aggressions and systemic racism come about when there is a low supply of racism and a very high demand. I'm ashamed to admit that in my early teens I went through a brief "everything is racist" period, but at least that gave me a firsthand understanding of how poisonous victim culture and looking for racism around every corner is.
I've had white lefties call me a white supremacist and one got mad at me for saying that if he wanted to help black people then simply treat everyone equally and hold everyone accountable for bad behavior. One of the funniest things said to me was that since my ancestry DNA said I was about 20% European I was told that I didn't inherit a European appearance but I inherited their "white personality"
I have zero problem in condemning bad behavior regardless of who is doing it. I just find it astonishing how the media can condemn storming the capitol with a straight face and act like nobody remembers them cheerleading all the violence and destruction of the riots this past summer.
Thank you for your time.
you should avoid speaking politic with family members at it only create bad blood but if it is really inevitable. you can say something like this:
there are people very powerful that hope to put blacks against whites AGAIN because they want to get in power with the chaos. if you say whites are bad vote me and I let you fuck the bad whites, that is very easy. fix the economy for everyone? that is hard. those things about white privilege are all bullshit. to make black go against whites. they just want to create an enemy
then these fuckers lose control of the rage of the people and the people take the guns. now I have to fight a war against whites because what? the lazy ass of a politician? the lazy ass of the adviser of a politician? is not convenient.
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if they ask you who are these politicians?
the ones that make more posts on Twitter! or else, fuck I know who they are? not the politician you know. these fuckers are the adviser of politicians they are in the spot that gives them big money but don't expose their face.to the public so they are comfy and safe.
if they act prideful
yes you can fight and you can win. but can also the rest of the family fight? the kids? why I have to risk the future mine or the family for what? for glory?
or also
yeah. people don't giving a fuck about the color of the skin. is not the way to make people forget their race and racism. cramming race into every decision you make in your life and them cramming race into every decision you make daily basis is the way to make people forget about their race and racism.
if they say something you can reply just deny it with your head and say that the risk is to high. or is not convenient. and cut the debate
this discourse has some advantage: is the truth, is politically neutral, it forces the interlocutors to move from a matter of principles to a matter of convenience and practicability, is realistic and if they do decide to check they will easily find confirmation about what you say. the disadvantage is that they may call you coward.
also about with this happens, I post a link as he explains it better than me. you are in for a wild ride.
https://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/reasons-critical-race-theory-terrible-dealing-racism/