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My in-laws are racist (self.offmychest)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Balthazar to c/offmychest

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Feel free to share your own holiday get-together horror stories.

One brother-in-law has no filter between his brain and his speech, and usually that makes him a lot of fun and our favorite. But out of the blue today he starts talking about how America is the best (hard disagree, but he's American so I can give that a pass), people who don't like America should leave (stupid, but I see where you're coming from) and especially the blacks should go back to Africa (WTF!?!). I don't get how otherwise nice guys can be so full of hate for a whole class of people for no reason.

Edit: A sister-in-law says that slavery was the blacks' fault, because they sold their own. BIL's wife says the N word is the same level as "white trash".

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

socially awkward is part of my core being so its no big threat for me for things to get like that. Sucks for the rest of the family but they can decide to not invite me or not invite them if they want to avoid it. Im good either way.