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28 Reasons I’m DONE Talking To Most Of My Conservative Friends And Family Members

By Tiffany Willis on February 11, 2015

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I’m a Southern girl. Born in the South, raised in the South, and have rarely lived anywhere BUT the South. I actually love the South. I’ll die in the South. Being a Southern girl, I have more than my share of right-wing friends, neighbors, and family members — and some of you have in recent years crossed the line into nut-jobbery.

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7. You care more about your guns than you do about children.

After the Sandy Hook massacre, and following other similar tragedies, I asked many of you if you loved your guns .. http://www.liberalamerica.org/2013/10/12/insensitive-gun-nuts-plan-declare-sandy-hook-anniversary-guns-save-lives-day/ .. more than you do children. I made the statement of “I’d give up my gun forever if it would bring back even one of those children.”

I asked you if you’d do the same. You admitted that you would not.

8. You get excited about people dying.

You really, really like to see death. And not just to terrorists. You love the death penalty. You love war .. http://www.liberalamerica.org/2014/12/21/democracy-and-corruption-germany-files-war-crimes/ . You love seeing kids like Trayvon Martin being shot. They deserve it, you say. But his murderer has shown — again and again — since his acquittal that he is a dangerous person .. http://www.liberalamerica.org/2015/01/10/george-zimmerman-arrested-again/ .

9. You assume that everyone who needs help are losers and parasites who refuse to work.

Approximately 47 million people receive food stamps, and most of them are children or the elderly, in addition to people who are employed. The numbers, from a 2012 USDA report .. http://www.fns.usda.gov/ora/MENU/Published/snap/FILES/Participation/2011CharacteristicsSummary.pdf :

45 percent of SNAP recipients are under 18 years of age
Nine percent are age 60 or older
More than 40 percent live in households with earnings

10. You weren’t concerned about uninsured people– including me.

http://www.liberalamerica.org/2015/02/11/28-reasons-im-done-talking-to-most-of-my-conservative-friends-and-family-members/

.. heartfelt sentiments from a kind, sensitive and rational thinking southern gal ..