My chud family members didn't like "politics" but "politics" didn't include rants about "thugs on the street" and the like, and if I didn't like that topic, there wasn't much else they wanted to talk about but Gambo Thrones. Not too different from faculty chatter in the break room (by that I mean Gambo Thrones; the racism was lower key), and having to hear that shit twice in one day if I humored them enough to accept the invitation over (free food was free food) with the alternative being "nonpolitical" ranting about how many "welfare kids" they assumed my class had that shouldn't exist because their parents were presumably "bums that didn't deserve to breed" was kind of Jokerfying.

My family is certainly lib, but i can put forward critical topics like "the Washington Post carries weight for political opinions barely of the left of Hitler because it is manipulated by a megalomanical billionaire" and get a positive response. They're really just awful when it comes to US foreign policy. In a vacuum, they're not prejudice, but any mention of Palestinians and suddenly the situation is "complicated" .

I go to see my partners family a few times a year and the conversation is so awkward. Their mom does nothing but watch reruns of law and order SVU and 50's shows on TV Land, and their dad runs out of normal stuff to talk in about 20 minutes.

We can't talk about any kind of current events because the dad has incredibly reactionary takes despite claiming to be a progressive Democrat. I had a meltdown when he started talking about the Palestine student protests like they were brainwashed into supporting terrorists.

I've tried to have things to talk about to avoid getting into arguments, but they seem so bored with anything I have to say, so we end up sitting in silence for long stretches. Then when we leave they're like, "Leaving already? You just got here".

Things have never been explicitly "off limits," but there was also this expectation to tiptoe around conservative feelings. I just got sick of it. Why am I having to cater to their unhinged racism? Why aren't they catering instead to my race (I'm mixed)? So now I hide behind """"irony"""" (when really I'm just saying my actual commie opinions) and playing "devil's advocate."

"We should use the second ammendment to shoot scabs."

"Maybe China had the right idea when Mao was in charge."

"Banning conservatives opinions in the work place is probably a good thing."

"Borders should be abolished."

All of these are just "hypotheticals," of course. I would never actually suggest we should kill people for crossing a picket line (since I'm against the death penalty). Still, this sends some of them into a frenzy and now I'm not allowed at my sister's house anymore.

Still do. I don't talk about shit else with my family other than like. Landscaping and physical renovation anymore; because god help me their politics are fucking shit and they're scared piss-, shit-, bile-, and blood-less of the spray-tan porky. I have wasted like. Seven years trying to radicalize them; but if the literal fucking genocide their names and SSNs are attached to won't do it, nothing will.

As you might imagine, I don't really do get-togethers anymore without getting EXTREMELY blunted or functionally-tipsy beforehand. I'm genuinely ashamed of most of them.

I don't know if my family was intentionally "limited", maybe a little, but damn is conversation with my cousins boring now as adults. They just know and care about the most mainstream, dumb shit. They wouldn't read a book or watch an interesting film to save their lives. Yet they somehow have full conversations about random pop culture shit all night. I'm not exactly quiet or totally alienated but it's just so boring. We're not kids anymore but they have the intellectual and social maturity of teens.

I even have the one token fascist cousin who would be interesting albeit torturous to talk with about politics but refuses to talk with me about politics or elaborate on any political points they'll make in passing, like 'infamous slumlord Trump will make renting affordable' or 'vaxx bad'. I think that they know they'll just get exposed as an idiot and are insecure about it.