By: Rene'

Rene' — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:42:14 +0000

I hear you, Dean. I have a very conservative, very bigoted family member whose emails attack liberals, Jews, gays and basically anyone who isn’t lilly-white and Protestant. Which is funny as all get out when you realize that this guys’ family is made up of liberals, a handful of Jews, a couple of members who are gay and the family is Melungeon (aka seriously multi-racial) and he is constantly send email which are so easy to disprove it’s pathetic. I sent an email back with corections and documentation and his son emailed me saying I shouldn’t pick on his dad cause he’s old. My response was, if you are young enough to send that type of propoganda you’re young enough to handle reading the corrections.

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:16:42 +0000

My Rightwing sister-in-law occasionally sends me emails with, let’s say the wingnut viewpoint. I use the term wingnut because the emails are lies and fabrications, but the sender doesn’t care as long as it supplements their political viewpoint, hence wingnut.
I send her back corrections or links to the errors and then don’t hear back for a while. The last one was a list that Robin Williams had supposedly penned here:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/williams.asp
and as I’m reading it and thinking, “You know I kinda know Robin WIlliams political views and these don’t sound like Robin Williams!”, so I went to Snopes and sure enough it was fake. I sent her the link and don’t hear back for a while. My sister told me that this sis-in-law talked to her like she was just stunned that I actually checked the truth of something that she had sent me. There was a George Carlin one going around also and I corrected her on that one.
She apparently knows better than to send me the Obama stuff or anything like that.(c:

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