Politics

[mobileoak]

So, I love my grandpa, he's a great guy.. but a few years ago he discovered the internet. You might think this is a good thing, but the only way that it really impacts me is that he sends me these incredibly right-leaning email forwards. At the very beginning I told him I didn't like forwards and not to send them to me, but now that we went back

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[ceallaighgirl]

Maybe you could set up a filter so that e-mails that contain certain words ("Obama" and "muslim") could just all be immediately directed to a separate folder.

My apartment manager sent me all kinds of e-mails like that. Fortunately when I asked her to stop, she actually did. It irritated the heck out of me!

[jadeejf]

Today was really the last straw for me. I'm beyond irritated- particularly that he implicated me. I mean, I know we're married, and I certainly agree with you, but I had no hand in writing that e-mail and for him to imply that because of it, I have no common sense is just beyond rude.

I'm currently trying to calm down and not write him a stormy e-mail back myself... so anyway... argh. I hear you. I love you. Let's never be jerks together, ok?

[astormorray]

You know, this is kinda off topic, but my grandfather and my aunt had some great fallings out over the Vietnam war, and when she was arrested at a protest, he refused to spring her, because he'd fought WWII, and etc, etc. But at the end of his life, um around the end would be more accurate, he was out protesting the invasion of Iraq himself.

But luckily all the forwards I get from relatives are the sappy *women are awesome* sort from my mother-in-law...

My family is so politically mixed and nonconfrontational that we carefully don't talk about it.

[kari]

Honestly, I just delete forwards without reading them most of the time--especially if the subject line tips me off that I'm going to get steamed about the content. But it's a different thing when you get personal emails that are pretty accusatory

[jjostm]

I kept rickrolling my dad until he started using Snopes to check his sources. He's stopped sending as many messages. Thanks Rick Astley!

The only unfortunate thing, sometimes the urban-myth e-mail says that Snopes says it's crescent fresh, and then when you look it up in Snopes, it isn't cres.

-j