Long story short, my GF is from a race that my bigot father has told me horrible racist shit about for years, just boilerplate Fox News-level analysis of why to hate and fear X race. They met for the first time, and after she left I told him I was uncomfortable introducing them bc of his bigotry. He got all, "I'm not looking at her as X, I'm looking at her as your girlfriend", but I was like "I don't fucking care how you want to justify it, you're a racist bigot and all you're capable of doing is repeating whatever fascist ideology you watch on TV. It doesn't make me feel any better that you think she's 'one of the good ones.'" Then I left.
I've thought that for a long time, finally said it, but I feel horrible about it - it doesn't exactly make me feel good to make an old man feel angry and sad. But at the end of the day it's his own god damn fault for subjecting me to bigoted ideology for decades.
just had to vent a lil bit thanks comrades :meow-hug:
For what it's worth, you did the right thing - even though it was no doubt deeply uncomfortable for you.
Bigots should be made to feel bad about their opinions. Without any level of real control over society, it's just about our only recourse. And, hell, you never know, maybe he'll reflect on what you said and start to change.