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same here and i used to think it was just me being the black sheep of the family until i spent xmas with my cousins instead of my immediate family.

the main topic of conversation with my cousins' families was trump all xmas long while it was a taboo subject with my immediate family. the only thing that separates my immediate family from my cousins that is that most of us of are so white passing that we've married and started families w white people only; while my cousins are nowhere close to white passing and only married & started families w other brown people.

in retrospect, it should have been a portent that my siblings wouldn't join in on the trump bashing during the family reunions going back to 2016 and now i know why they stopped bothering to show up like i've stopped bother to show up to their gatherings.

the worst part of it for me is that i suspect that, if i too were white passing, i would be more aligned with them, since my father is not white passing, but is clearly aligned with them.

Yeah, it's harder to mask around them these days though.

Same. I have no more patience for it and if the discussions go into things that actually matter like Palestine I'll state my opinion, but won't spend any energy on debating them anymore.

I just do my work, spend time with my commie partner and kid. I am ok with not having libs as friends, I cannot look past the way they ignore everything. I am polite with them at work, but tend to keep to myself as much as possible.

When younger I tried so hard to fit in and got burnt so many times

I try so hard to feign liberalism when with friends, but I end up losing it eventually and letting my resentment and frustrations come out. I’m not intentionally mean, I just become a little standoffish.

I assume that westerners are genocidal and avoid interacting with them except to sometimes shout “free palestine” at tourists when I’m on a jog.

A lot of my friends from when I was at uni stopped talking to me after I started posting about Palestine, and those who didn't care about that stopped talking to me when I didn't have a job immediately. I deleted most of their numbers by now, so yeah, when I meet new people I'm polite, but I'd rather have a few comrades than a lot of fair weather friends.

if they will ignore the suffering of Palestine they will definitely ignore mine

Liberals are the first to abandon you when you get chronically ill ime so yea