http://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/07/13/ny-times-time-to-stop-snubbing-right-wing-famiky-n2415609
For years now, the Left has made it their mission to break up families -- not because of illegal immigration, but because of political differences.
It became a big thing under Obama, when the Left pushed to "confront" your "Right-wing uncle" over Thanksgiving dinner, and then it evolved into removing those "problematic" family members from your life entirely.
This writer has seen it happen to people she knows, and she's seen Lefties brag about cutting off family and friends over politics.
It's stupid, and short-sighted, and now the Left may be reversing course.
Katherine Boyle (@KTmBoyle) ~ Something is happening at the New York Times op-ed page.
This writer checked, and it's a real op-ed in the New York Times:
There has been a sorting into belief camps, algorithmically and in real life. It dictates whom we match with on dating apps and where we live. We block those we disagree with online, we leave the group chat, we don’t show up for Thanksgiving. Recent data suggests that today, one in five Americans is estranged from a family member over politics. More points of deep disagreement will surely arise: over Trump’s immigration crackdown and use of the military in domestic affairs, over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s MAHA mandates, over antisemitism, over a megabill that takes health care from the poor while cutting taxes for the rich.
No one is required to spend time with people they don’t care for. But those of us who feel an obligation to shun strategically need to ask: What has all this banishing accomplished? It’s not just ineffective. It’s counterproductive.
GayLumberjack (@gay_lumberjack) ~ Articles like this are alarming to conservatives who fear their green-haired relatives might show up for holidays again.
Yeah, and rightly so! Get-togethers have been so much more pleasant since "they shunned us."
Kaitain (@Kaitain_US) ~“Can I get back in the will, Dad?”
50 ѕнα∂єѕ σƒ 2025 (@ShadesOfPunky) ~ They need someone to pay off that student loan debt they happily signed up for.
alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) ~ Someone's friends need money from their families.
Probably.
Ann Bauer (@annbauerwriter) ~ Imagine when they stop snubbing and their right-wing family says, "Yeah, we're good, thanks."
Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) ~ They think they left us and we miss them. That's funny.
Oh, some people did not take this op-ed well.
lovable rogue (@lovabler0gue) ~ And, of course, the comments are full of this ...
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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