Comradeship // Freechat

Speaking about politics, especially foreign policy, for a lot of Americans is considered a bit of a social taboo, at least among white suburbanites in my experience. I've one person in my family from this group, and though I do care for them on the basis of the fact they are family, it's very clear they are uncomfortable with interrogating uncomfortable realities or personal held beliefs. They'll immediately say it's rude to speak about politics or religion at a family gathering, but the rest of us non-whites have no issue with arguing on the topic, even when people fundamentally disagree. However the older white suburbanite just refuses to apply their, some times genuinely abundant knowledge, into something actually coherent. In the case of my family again, it's someone who could legitimately speak to you for over an hour on the abuses of white settlers against the native people, bringing up information that they clearly investigated before hand. Yet if you talk about the politics of today, suddenly your being unpolite. It's a really baffling experience for me, as I've just never struggled with the same lack of curiosity.