How to Deal with Your Racist Uncle in 2018
2017 was the actual worst. From the inauguration to the hurricanes, to the bombings and shootings, to the wars and earthquakes, all accompanied by surreal presidential tweets, we made it by the skin of our teeth and the strength of our respective communities. We live in a stratified and hostile society that grew out of more stratification and hostility. Do you feel it? It’s perhaps most insidiously present during the holidays, when we return home and all is jolly and bright until our grandmother says something racist or our dad doesn’t get why colonialism was bad, and if we call them out, it gets really… uncomfortable. The truth is, each generation and each political party has an idea of what society must accept to continue as it ought, and these ideas tend to oppose each other. They aren’t just a progression of harmless opinions, however; two thoughts can be diametrically opposed and accepted, but they cannot be diametrically opposed and true. What, then, can we do w...