My Father Is A Brainwashed Moron.

[MarxistLeninistMaoistTrot]

I spent years telling my father that the conflict in Northern Ireland was not about religeon, even when he saw it on everything i showed him he just kept saying no it was about religeon and saying he knows because he has been and everyone said it was over religeon.
I fucking hate him for his constant political blindness which he blatantly in herited off his father who says he is a socialist and a royalist at the same time and thinks England must expand to survive:rolleyes:.
They think the muslim world is plotting and want us to " get rid of all these asylum seekers"
I have fell out with them so much i have not spoke to them in 2 years and i hope to never see them again.
Am i a bit extreme in cutting ties with family for my political conviction.
I beleive if someone says they are communist, then they should act accordingly including ridding themself of all negative racist and impearialistic influences.
Do you think i am right or wrong.

[Andropov]

You are right.
Id do the same in your position.

[Spawn of Stalin]

The best thing you can do is attempt to educate them. Otherwise no, I don't think it is at all rash to break family ties over something you feel strongly about.

[MarxistLeninistMaoistTrot]

Thanks, just wanted to hear i had done the right thing.

[Andropov]

Thanks, just wanted to hear i had done the right thing.
TBH I dont think an internet forum is the best place to find the answers to the questions your asking.

[MarxistLeninistMaoistTrot]

i dont have enough money for a shrink
XD

[Andropov]

i dont have enough money for a shrink
XD
You should know the answer to it yourself without outside vindication.

[MarxistLeninistMaoistTrot]

i know
the reason is it is my birthday soon and it just made me think thats all.
My character is strong enough to know what is the right thing to do.

[Devrim]

I think that you can't base every relationship on political beliefs. You can love your family because they are your family despite the fact that you have political disagreements with them. There are people in my family who are nationalists. It doesn't mean that I have to cut all relations with them.

I would advise giving your father a call to see how he is.

Devrim

[Pogue]

what devrim said.

although if someone in my family was a nazi they wouldn't get anything from me. luckily that will never happen.

[Spawn of Stalin]

What's important to consider is that he might not actually be a bonehead, people have lost faith in mainstream "politically correct" ideas and they are now looking for people to blame. It shouldn't be too hard to identify whether your Father is just confused or if he actually is a rightist nutter, if it's the former, it would definitely be worth it to try getting through to him.

[RedRise]

Don't completely cut ties. Try to educate him but if he's not gonna listen just ignore him. You don't have to pretend you don't know him.

[Yazman]

IMO, some genetic link is meaningless. Traits like honesty and loyalty should determine who you keep in your life, not how close their DNA is to yours.

[Josef Balin]

The only people in this thread who are saying you did the right thing haven't grown up mentally. Speaking as someone who has abandoned family for extended periods of time over something as meaningless, don't do it. Also, interesting fact (but not important), Marx and Lenin both had family members who had reactionary political beliefs, and neither ever considered abandoning them. That's just crazy, this thread is like the posterchild for the communists are teenagers stereotype.

[Tatarin]

At least you can get away with the happy thought that their political legacy won't continue with you. Also, though it might sound cold, you could always learn an argument or two by debates, or just by listening on what they say.

[Raisa]

I spent years telling my father that the conflict in Northern Ireland was not about religeon........


man dont bother arguing with your parents, you are the future not them! And knowing that you got it like that, be patient, and live your words so they can become inspired to understad w hat you say

[Saorsa]

In the Philippines, when middle class students want to join the New People's Army or the CPP, they tell them to go to their middle (and even upper) class parents and ask them to keep paying for you to attend university while you skip all your classes and devote yourself to revlutionary organising. If they say no, you may have to cut all ties and put the revolution before them, thus prving how important the struggle is to you. And if they agree to keep sending you money, you can just devote yourself to organising without having to worry about your next meal.

That's in a country where armed peasants and workers have been waging a People's War against the state for 40 years. You don't live there and I doubt you're about to join a communist army. You don't usually have to make those sort of choices in the place you live in, which is nothing like the Philippines. And if they heard you'd made that choice when you didn't have to, they'd think you were crazy.

I don't know how bad your family are politically. If mine were hardcore racists, anti-Semites, fascists or whatever, I'd probably cut them off to some extent. My family are pretty bad politically, when I was kicked out of university for unpatriotically burning the New Zealand flag they thought the university was totally right to do it!:lol:

But I'd never consider cutting ties with them. I don't think you should either just because you can't agree about politics. Try to keep the two seperate, family and politics, and talk about something else when you're around them. Families come in handy in the long run.

[Yazman]

The TC is banned now anyway, shouldn't we trash this?