Thread: FURIOUS!!!!!!!

We are on the brink of having big family troubles. My brother-in-law who is a college professor told my husband that he does not want to discuss immigration with him because it would not go well. After 9-11, I sent him an email about some muslims who were supporting 9-11, he immediately emailed back and told my husband to spank me!!!! Not to mention several other incidents. He has been on college campuses for so many years and thinks that globalism is just the thing to do. It is getting really hard for me to keep my mouth shut and not cause trouble in the family.

That can be a problem in families if you disagree on political issues. Some subjects are taboo in our family or it erupts into a brawl. That is how our family deals with these issues. It is just not worth it to argue with someone in your family that does not share your point of view. Life is short and go with people that you can talk with that are willing to listen or share your point of view. Those that are adamant about a global economy or illegal immigration are just not worth your time.

If I was you, I would tell my brother-in-law to just try spanking me!, not to mention anyone else trying it I have been watching Fox news for a long time now and I shudder to think of sending kids to college now with their total liberal ways in which our college professors indoctronate them. Most seem to be really anti-american and even against our military! they should get down on their knees and thank each and every one of our soldeirs for having the guts (that professors don't seem to have) to fight and die for those ignorant professors, so they can keep on teaching thier hateful socialist ways to out kids.I think peope are nuts for sending and paying for their kids to be brainwashed that way. Does your brother-inlaw, treat his wife that way, that he would think of spanking her if she dared to believe differently then he does? Write him off, I would!

...he immediately emailed back and told my husband to spank me!!!!

Sounds like someone with an un-American view of women's rights, to me!

Is he from somewhere else?

Everyone knows by now colleges are leftist.

Feel for ya sawdust. Reminds me of all the child rearing books and stuff. Works great in THEORY, but far from the reality of things. Coz what should, isn't always what, is. So they're preaching as if it would go all perfectly. All does, in a fantasy world. Unfortunatly.....we're earthbound and it doesn't run as smoothly, and these intellectuals are overlooking that "real" point.
Guess you'll just be stuck talking to us.

No I don't see him spanking his wife, he wouldn't do it. She is also a college professor and is in Kosovo right now, supposedly Wesley Clark is staying in the same hotel she is staying in. She travels all over the world teaching classes for her university. Not only does he not want to discuss immigration but he does not want to discuss the future of the western hemsiphere either. He knows they would disagree. These college professors think immigration and globalism will not affect their jobs.

sawdust, does she feel the same way that he does?

Sawdust,

A few words on my own experience with this just to give you one possible way of dealing with it. Use it or not...

I too tried to enlist the support of a sister-in-law who lives near me so we could share some of the tasks in addressing the issues. She and my mother had a falling out a few years back over race. My mother does charity work with abused, neglected, and abandoned kids and made a comment about how most of the parents in her treatment program were of Hispanic origin. My sister-in-law's mother is from Puerto Rico and my sister-in-law took my mother's comment as a racial slur because of her sensitivity to her mother's background. Why tell you this? Because when I approached her about this illegal immigration issue, I never imagined she would STILL be carrying this chip on her shoulder so many years past the incident. She staunchly defended the illegal immigrants and voiced all the same "scripted-sounding" opinions about how we're all immigrants, country was built by immigrants, etc etc. I provided her with plenty of verifiable information and statistics about the dangers of pursuing this "path to citizenship" for illegals and she continued to reply that "white supremacists and people like Timothy McVay were far more of a threat to her than any Mexican picking tomatoes." I was livid too but there are some people who just really don't want to know, or they don't want to be involved, or they don't care, or they don't have the mental capacity to truly comprehend or even if they did they feel helpless to do anything. Beyond them are those that have an opinion that is couched in some sort of "chip" or "spoonfeeding of information" that you will never budge no matter how much you try because it would mean they would have to admit their errors, which is terribly frightening to them (as adults being made to feel foolish and led astray) or their pride simply will not allow it.

So I dropped the whole issue with sis-in-law. We have gone back to "how are the kids? Nice day we're having. You look great, have you lost weight?" And while I lost a level of respect for her "social intelligence," I still hold to a level of care for her as a person and family member. I lost her as a compatriat on this issue but in the meantime, I have found more than a few more elsewhere...so I was blessed on both fronts: preserving family bonds while continuing with what is important to me.

Of course, she agree's with him. She is a world traveler, people who travel the world see the world as a small place. They go to these countries on business and stay in fancy hotels and visit universities and big business in the countries. They do not see the poverty and the oppression of the people so there is no way for them to think that I would not want my country to be like this. They only see the best and the brightest in these countries.