How to eat with others – Mike Monteiro

> If you insist on spending Thanksgiving with your racist relatives, go to fight. Call Uncle Bob on his Jim Crow bullshit.

Is Uncle Bob really on Jim Crow bullshit, or has someone convinced you of that to achieve their own political goals? Don’t be someone else’s political tool.

There’s no reason to fight with your family, and trust outsiders over them, unless your family is composed of people who take advantage of your good will and trust. Politics are not a value system, nor do they tell you what’s moral or ethical.

Uncle Bob may or may not be a fascist or a racist, and you need to understand the difference between what he actually says, and what someone wants you to think he’s saying before you cut him off.