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In reply to the discussion: Fuck your "pro-life" anti-abortion, pro-gun, anti-white privilege arguments. [View all]Blue_Roses
(13,043 posts)I flinch when one of these topics (or other ones) pops up in a conversation. I have many southern relatives (yes, I too live in the south) who are content to live as if it was still 1960. While some of these people irritate the hell out of me, I still enjoy some aspects of their personality (or banana pudding).
To deal with it rather than have an endless argument, I try to approach the conversation as though they were afraid for their lives and that their ignorance on such particular topic is causing their fear. Gently. Then I began to pull out facts that they can overtly see and identify with on a daily basis. (Ex: taxes needed for paramedics and police protection; health care needed to live; etc.)
It also depends on who's worth the challenge, since some are so brainwashed nothing sinks in. It's a crap shoot, which is why it is far and few that I even attend these things