Back from the in-laws'
Nov. 14th, 2011 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancingsingingI am so tired, and I can't believe there is no weekend after this! On the bright side, I only had to spend one dinner with the step-mother-in-law who seems to detest my very me-ness. (My favorite comment from her at that dinner: "That's a very large party. In more ways than one!") And the step-father-in-law who says horrible racist, narrow-minded, rude stuff? Well, this time, instead of politely changing the subject or saying noncommittal things and hoping he would eventually wind down, I just decided to go ahead and say what I thought. Choice comments of mine:
- "well, if you don't recognize (your) privilege, or you don't care, then there's nothing to say in this conversation" (this in response to him complaining that a white kid with a better GPA might get rejected from a school because a person of color got the spot instead)
- "maybe I think /your/ ideas are stupid" (in response to him saying "that's stupid" in the middle of one of my thoughts)
It was cool. I hated him a lot less when I felt like I could just say what I thought. And he actually seemed to listen to some of what I said about the benefits of a progressive tax structure over a flat tax. Funny, that.
- "well, if you don't recognize (your) privilege, or you don't care, then there's nothing to say in this conversation" (this in response to him complaining that a white kid with a better GPA might get rejected from a school because a person of color got the spot instead)
- "maybe I think /your/ ideas are stupid" (in response to him saying "that's stupid" in the middle of one of my thoughts)
It was cool. I hated him a lot less when I felt like I could just say what I thought. And he actually seemed to listen to some of what I said about the benefits of a progressive tax structure over a flat tax. Funny, that.
