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Family. Can't live with them, can't shake them 'til the stoopid falls out.
I just sent this to my mother after yet another hate filled screed about how Obama is a Muslim America-hating empty suit who is descended from slave owners and wants to be the liberal Messiah. No, seriously.
I hate shit like this. She knows how I feel about it. We hardly speak as it is, and this is her email contact with me.
And yes, I hit "Reply All" to send my opinion to the entire extended-family email list. My spam folder should be jumpin' with Redneck Indignation in about thirty minutes.
Please remove me from mailings of the political variety. You know that I disagree with most conservative political principles. I do my own research and make my own political decisions. You are my family, and I do not want the aggravation of politics, especially what is to me hate-driven political drivel that does nothing except capitalize on peoples' fears of what is different from them in terms of race, religion, and social beliefs, to be a source of tension between us. I wouldn't send you the political jokes and missives from my gay, Muslim, pagan, or atheist friends because I know you wouldn't want to read it and it would just make you angry. Please extend me the same courtesy.
-Casey
I hate shit like this. She knows how I feel about it. We hardly speak as it is, and this is her email contact with me.
And yes, I hit "Reply All" to send my opinion to the entire extended-family email list. My spam folder should be jumpin' with Redneck Indignation in about thirty minutes.
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But if it is directed at me: yes, I was (am) mad about the emails I have been receiving. They aren't emails about differences in policy, or differences of opinion on specific issues - they have been blatant attacks on the worth of liberals, blacks, gays, Muslims, and basically anyone who is not a white, Baptist, Southern male. Some of them have been not-so-veiled calls for the assassination of Senator Obama. By association, the insinuation is there that people who believe like I do deserve to die.
Yet for standing up to it - even just asking for it not to be sent to me - in a mostly civil manner, deserves being snarked? Is it that I did it publically, or did it at all?
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