• Kasama ☭@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    25·
    16 days ago

    I saw my family over the weekend. Up until now, I thought I was the only communist in the family, then I had a long conversation with one of my cousins. It started with Sydney Sweeney’s “jeans” ad and then we talked about how the empire has always been a settler-colonial project, how its genocidal history has inspired every fascist regime in existence. She’s actually been reading about all this for a while.

    I don’t know if she’s a socialist right now, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she was reading Marx, Lenin, etc.

      • Kasama ☭@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        9·
        15 days ago

        Thank you! I think her radicalization started last year after she had a falling out with another cousin.

        So last summer my family on my dad’s side was on a family vocation(I wasn’t there, but I’m aware of what happened during the trip), and my cousin (to maintain privacy we’ll call her Elisa) had a friend over. From what I’ve heard her friend didn’t have a good time being there because my other cousin had very racist things to say to her face and admitted that he was proud to be a white supremacist; he’s also a zionist, I’ve seen him wear a zof shirt. Elisa was very upset and started yelling at him and apparently the entire house was quiet for hours after the argument.

        I’ll say this though, it was one of the few times I actually discussed politics with a family member since I have boundaries where I don’t have conversations about politics with family members.

        • Makan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          4·
          15 days ago

          That’s horrible. I’m also dealing with a bad family member who is also racist.

        • LeninZedong@lemmygrad.ml
          1·
          15 days ago

          Good to hear! At least you can talk to someone else in your family (I cannot talk to anyone in my family about this because I can hardly talk to them at all).

    • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      14 days ago

      that’s how the tankies get ya (speaking from experience as someone who basically stumbled into ML politics from a previously ‘radlib’ experience, mostly ‘alone’ [no personal friends steering me that direction])