Thanksgiving? Really?
For some reason I am on Salon.com’s email list. Whilst it is an interesting glimpse into the attitude of the obnoxious, bossy Left, I usually just delete the emails right away because, well, I just can’t be bothered.
But I have to admit that today’s email both annoyed me and made me sad. Here’s what the top story was:
How to win Thanksgiving: Your guide to arguing with relatives
JIM NEWELL It’s going to be especially hard to avoid politics at Thanksgiving this year. Here’s how you can defeat Uncle Dingo
Now, this is always the style with them, these pretentious “Here’s How” articles to help the Enlightened Left exert their proper moral authority over us Cromagnonian rubes and out wit us with their Superior Logic™ (which is, of course, obviously a wasted effort as we can’t understand logic in the first place, being schtupid and all).
But what makes me especially sad is this concept that every conversation, every event, every Holiday is a political contest that needs to be “won” in some way or another, that the very people who so loudly and incessantly decry the lack of “diversity” and “respect for others” are so insistent that their point of view not only is correct but in fact must be assiduously imposed upon every occasion, upon every conversation until complete adherence to the acceptable orthodoxy is obtained.
It’s not actually “especially hard to avoid politics at Thanksgiving this year.” It’s quite simple.
You avoid it.
You shut up.
If someone says some overtly political statement, you say “yes, a pity. Would you like more cranberry sauce?”
When everything becomes a contest, a contested event, we all lose.
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November 27, 2014 10:07 am
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“It’s going to be especially hard to avoid politics at Thanksgiving this year.”
In my forty six years on Earth not one single Thanksgiving conversation ever turned to politics. That sentence is just an excuse for a lefty zealot to inject politics into a gathering.
There’s the @exjon approach.
Or there’s the @CuffyMeh approach.
First of all, are flaming liberals ever actually invited to Thanksgiving?
I mean, more than once?
What Gunslinger said – except I’ve got about 10 more years on him.
One does NOT discuss sex, religion, or politics at a dinner table. Period.
P.S.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Nicely said, sir!
“That sentence is just an excuse for a lefty zealot to inject politics into a gathering.”
That’s right. My lefty relatives were always injecting their political opinions into holiday dinner conversations. It got to the point even in the 80’s that I hated to attend.