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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My cousin's wife believes that refugees should be turned away and gay marriage is evil!  I feel like loosing my mind thinking about her ignorance.  [b]These topics have never come up before[/b] but because of Facebook I know we don't share similar beliefs.  So what does DCUM do when these topics come
Up at dinner?  Scream at the ignorance or keep chewing on your turkey??????[/quote]

Then they are unlikely to come up again, unless you bring them up.

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NP here - I'm going home for Thanksgiving for the first time in several years. DH and I will be the lone liberals in a sea of conservatives. I stopped going home for holidays simply because my family thinks it's really fun to bring up political topics - especially when they know I will disagree with them. I don't know why they think it's fun. I know that we vehemently disagree on most things (personally, I'm pretty far left on the scale, so I disagree with a lot of people on a lot of things), so I would never, ever bring up politics/religion/whatever. Without fail, though, someone will say something to pick a fight. It's super. Especially when you are the only one expressing a different view, and everyone else bombards you.

Anyway, after endless conversations about how Thanksgiving is supposed to be a holiday of togetherness and why do they always have to pick a fight, I just stopped going. For the last several years, DH and I have just had a little thanksgiving just the two of us. So great. But my mother really laid on the guilt this year, so we are going to try again. I'm going into this prepared to walk out if things get dicey, though. So there's that. [/quote]

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