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*My husband comes from a very conservative, very MAGA family. I’m mixed and have an immigrant parent. We have a teenage child who is queer and absolutely perfect as they are. We have mostly kept our distance from my husband’s family, but the few times of year we have to see them, we ask for no politics to be brought up (although they often ignore that). I’ve tolerated the bigoted, disgusting comments his family made about people like me, my family, and our child out of love for my husband. That’s not happening anymore.”
“We decided after this election that our silence on these issues with them is a type of support for their horrid beliefs. I don’t believe all Trump supporters are awful bigots; I think most of them were misinformed by the media (mainstream and social) and having a hard enough time just surviving to think about issues like equal rights, environmental protection, and other causes that are now deemed ‘liberal.’ Let’s be honest, though, there’s a reason the KKK endorsed Trump (again), and there are a lot of Trump voters who know damn well what he is going to do to minority communities, and they either don’t care or actively cheer it on. My husband’s family is in that group. Their presence in my family’s life will not be missed.”
—Anonymous
