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Before you think this is a post about how much I hate my dad, let me just say that I love him with all my heart. He's a good person and he's (mostly) always there for me.
I was in the kitchen making some bagel bites when the news came on with a report about Trump locking up families trying to escape their home countries. I was quiet for awhile, just listening while eating my bagel bites. I couldn't listen anymore, so I gathered my crap and started for my room. I glanced at my dad, and he looked REALLY normal. I thought this was weird (as I was in the kitchen making faces and shaking my head), so I asked him, "Does Trump really think he's doing something good by locking kids up?" and he replied, "Well, he's trying to discourage illegal immigrants from coming in." I was shocked. He is really still sticking with Trump after all of this garbage??? So with tears forming in my eyes and my voice shaky, I said "He's just taking it out on the innocent people" and slammed my door. I had much more that I wanted to say, but I was too shaken up to say anything else.
This is really making me rethink my dad's character. Is he really okay with this? If I were to be separated from my family, would he still think this way? Sometimes I just want to disappear and not say anything to them so they don't know what's going on, but I know that is cruel.
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*sigh* I’ve said this to a lot of people. Just because someone likes a different political leader than you, has different views than you, different opinions, anything, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t care about them or vice versa. You may disagree with your father, and he may disagree with you, but your relationship as father and son (or daughter) shouldn’t change. That relationship is far greater than some stupid thing going on in the world today.
ReplyReferring to such a sensitive and very important topic as stupid demonstrates overall what type of person you are. This issue is NOT stupid and needs to be reevaluated ASAP.
ReplyI say stupid because people sacrifice important, loving and well developed friendships for STUPID reasons. (Not just this border stuff going on) This persons relationship with their father is more important (to them) than what’s going on at the border. (Or should be at least, but that’s just me) Not saying they have to agree with their father, just saying that relationships are much more important than opinions. I’m the type of person who values loving family and friends over the political shit spewed out at us everyday.
ReplyRelationships are plainly not more important than other people's lives.
ReplyRelationships are plainly not more important than other people's lives.
ReplyMy father and I disagree on a lot too but you don't have to let it affect your relationship. You can't change other people. You can tell your father your viewpoints or you can say you would rather not discuss it. Just be who you are and let your father be himself too and know that even if your father doesn't agree with you, a lot of people do. I for one think it's wrong.
ReplyDisagree. It is everyone's responsibility to judge the people who harm others, and that is precisely what trump has done his entire life; harm others and rake in money for himself. Now that he has real power he's gained a cult following; refusing to judge these cultists, regardless of their relationship to you, is complacency, and it makes you just as bad as him.
ReplyTrump is, at best, a racist, a fascist, and a misogynist. If your father supports Trump, he supports those things. However, that is his choice. I'd like to say that he's still a good person, but he's not. Not if he supports those things. But he's still your dad and still loves you.
ReplyAgreed but I'm not sure that it's relevant that the father loves his kid; A) you don't know that for sure, bad fathers exist in spades, and B) there is no virtue in returning love to a professed racist.
ReplyHe is putting kids in cages and holding them hostage all in The name of MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN 😭😭 the guy is sick!
ReplyHate to have to say this, but your dad is not a good person; no good person supports racism, and they certainly don't act to proliferate it. An individual's character is most basically defined by their actions, and if that individual's actions are intended to increase the influence that societal diseases like racism, misogyny, fascism, and jingoism have on our country, then their relationship to you is completely irrelevant; Painters paint, Runners run, Jumpers jump - if your dad stands up to be counted with the worst people in the country it's not because he made a mistake; it's because he chose to be there.
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