Argumentative

[poliphilo]

We took my mother-in-law to Sainsburys yesterday, where we met her next door neighbour and had to give her a lift home. This next-door neighbour is an aggrieved person whose father used to be a communist shop steward- and she started talking about how Asians should have their own bathhouses and not pollute "ours" and I called her a racist and we both became spluttering and incoherent. I wish I could be Buddhalike about these provocations, but it appears I can't. Afterwards I said to Ailz that I seem to have a thing about getting into arguments with shrill and opinionated old ladies and she pointed out that this particular old lady is approximately the same age as me- and might even be younger. Oh.

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[michaleen.livejournal.com]

My parents are racists. My mother used to at least pretend to be socially acceptable, but since the scary black Kenyan Muslim socialist stole her White House, she does not even pretend. Add to that the effects of Fox News Channel's constant drumbeat of racially-tinged resentment politics and I spend as little time in their presence as I possibly can.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's a shame. Racism is so stupid.