wildflowersoul | (no subject)

For the past five years (good lord, has it been that long?) I have been receiving various and sundry email forwards regarding how great God is, how bad democrats/left wingers are, and how cool Republicans/right wingers are. These come from my mom and her illustrious new husband. Now, normally I either skim and chuckle, delete without reading, or smack my forehead and roll my eyes. Rarely, one will come across me that I feel the need to respond to. I believe the last was a particuarly bad gay joke that got my ire up, I simply responded that I would appreciate it if he (new husband guy) didn't send me anything homophobic ever again. I also thought it would be a good time to try some remedial education along the lines of "gay people aren't bad" and threw in the "Hey, you know, I'm bisexual, you've spoken to me, I'm not so bad am I." What I got back was something along the lines that he just didn't want to have anything to do with "those people." So anyway, today I got a forward about a quote from a recent speech of Hillary Clinton's, something about taking back the tax cuts. I wrote back to everyone on the forward list that the ellipses in the quote indicate that it's somehow been manipulated (i.e. words are missing!). Ok, so I might have added that the tax cuts didn't benefit any of us, so I didn't see why they (the Southern gentleman and his clan) should be upset. I may also have tried to dispel the myth that democrats are Robin Hoods who just want to steal money to give to crackheads and homeless people (adding some embellishment here). So now I'm getting emails from Southern Republicans along the lines of this: "Jen, it's not your money and you are not entitled to a penny of it to support the causes you happen to like!":
Whaa? I'm not asking for it! I...but...if it's not my money, then how is it this guy's money? I need to go back to just smacking the forehead and deleting. Why can they not be reasoned with??!! I would actually enjoy the political discourse if they would take their fingers out of their ears and obey the rules of basic logic.

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It's hopeless. Just say that you'd rather not receive any more emails from them.

Yeah, I just keep hoping that maybe the right argument will make them see the error of their ways. But no. They'll hear no reason.

Oh sweetie, no arguments will change their minds. That's why the purges will be so delicious. Nothing turns off ignorant rhetoric and ditto-headed ranting quite like neigh total extinction. Imagine the quiet...

Just tell them you'd rather not listen to their ill-informed, bigoted, right wing babble. You can't educate the willfully ignorant (unless you have a car battery, some jumper cables and a couple of wet sponges).

Purge away, my friend! =)

Just send them all a
eat a queer fetus for jesus
bumpersticker. That oughta settle things.

Ha! *guffaw* That would be hi-larious!

Poor Jen. At least my family as conservative as they are, are also extremely apathetic (which in my opinion is a bigger crime than having a terrible opinion)

Heh. I'm more amused by it now. The guy wrote back and said "why don't you get real rich and give all your money away." *giggle* Clearly, that's the reasonable option.

Serious I HATE that argument. It just cynical to think that people who are wealthy are also greedy and socially unconscious.

I concurr. And it's a stupid argument to say that Democrats want to steal money from the rich to give to the poor, that's not true. We all have to pay taxes, it's not like that's ever going to change (heh, unless a libertarian gets into office), the difference is in how the government spends what they've got- well, and also how many loopholes they create for people to get out of paying taxes.