Good day all. In two days America celebrates Thanksgiving in it’s traditional manner. Booze, huge meals with turkey, ham and beef, football and politics.
However, for those families with one or more Precious Snowflakes coming home from college, being with members of their family can be very trying. They will have to face their sexist, racist, misogynist Neanderthal family members who supported and voted for the Evil Donald Trump over the Skilled, Competent, Experienced and Angelic Hillary Clinton.
Facing these people will be extremely difficult for the Perpetually Offended Snowflake. It could induce horrible mental trauma as they are forced to deal with people who don’t support letting our brown brothers and sisters just walk across the border. Whatever shall they do you ask? Well, never fear, help has arrived. Here are the details from HeatStreet:
Nervous about talking politics over Thanksgiving dinner? At the College of William and Mary, there’s training for that. The so-called “Thanksgiving Toolkit,” sponsored by the English Department and held Monday night, offers students strategies to cope with family members with political viewpoints “that make you feel vulnerable and distressed.”
On college campuses, students may be able to avoid critical thinking, debate, or exposure to different political viewpoints altogether. But the tragic reality is that parents’ homes may not have designated safe spaces, so William and Mary has pulled together a plan for students encountering actual dissent for the first time in their sheltered adult existences.
Many of these coddled youths are apparently wondering: “How do you engage with people you love, yet disagree with? How do you take care of yourself in the meantime?”
I have a few suggestions, but they can wait.
Fear not. At tonight’s event, students can learn “strategies for discussing privilege,” as well as “how to show solidarity with those who are made especially vulnerable by the election results, including: undocumented immigrants, people of color, queer and trans people, people with disabilities.”
The faculty hosting this event will also teach students about organizations and resources they can pass on to less enlightened family members.
Unfortunately, the seminar has already been held, so if you missed it…
I’ve already seen a few stories out there of families telling their family members that they weren’t welcome this year to the festivities. The majority of them are of the ever so tolerant left cutting off family members who had the good sense to not vote for Felonia von Pantsuit. This has hurt those who were so disinvited, until they realized that they wouldn’t have to sit through another course of Tofu turkey and veggie steaks.
Now they can go out and have real turkey with friends and those other family members who have an actual grasp on reality. I looked at the events site, and it listed some of the topics to be discussed.
Seminar Description:
Consider this “open office hours” with faculty to discuss impending family visits: Do they have political views that make you feel vulnerable and distressed? How do you engage with people you love, yet disagree with? How do you take care of yourself in the meantime?
Topics may include:
– Strategies for discussing privilege
– How to show solidarity with those who are made especially vulnerable by the election results, including: undocumented immigrants, people of color, queer and trans people, people with disabilities.
– Organizations and resources to pass on to family
– How to deescalate conversations
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Thatisall
~The Angry Webmaster~
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