Families were split apart by the vaccination issue. It’s a pretty good bet the unvaccinated had little problem accommodating their vaccinated relatives. Nobody got excluded from Thanksgiving meals because they were vaccinated. The question now is can those who were excluded because they were unvaccinated forgive and reconcile those who excluded them? From Igor Chudov at igor-chudov.com:
Covid vaccine promoters and hateful media fractured families. Can we heal?
Many influential thought leaders are calling for “family abolition.”
Their vision of the future world is nicely illustrated by an important proponent of “family abolition,” Sophie Lewis. Check out this picture:
OpenDemocracy.Net explains:
We all want “kinship, love, and ‘good things to eat’”. It’s just that the family as we currently know it is not necessarily the best way to satisfy those desires. More importantly, the family assumes central responsibility to provide for these needs in a society that fails to do so.
The nuclear family does not just hold the promise of fulfilling needs of love and kinship, but as an institution it is built on intersecting racism, sexism, and homophobia. As Melinda Cooper points out, for example, welfare restructuring in the United States explicitly enforced a particular model of the married nuclear family that would exclude African-American single mothers from receiving benefits. Defending the “monogamous, heterosexual, many-children family” is therefore not a neutral act of defending the right to a safe and cozy home but is more often than not tied up in other conservative political goals.
The above might sound strange to my readers. Are families inherently “homophobic”? Is a way for people to live monogamously and procreate “exclusionary”? How are families, which include members of all genders, “sexist”?
Reminds me of the meme of the deceased elephant regarding the Grand Old Politburo (R) wing of the UNI club that we aren’t in, how they hunger for their own demise.
There are family members I will never speak to again due to CPUSA (D) loyalty and COV-LARP cult of obedience.
The plandemic was a great revealing and sorting in the time of great delusion.
Someone smart said, “Adversity doesn’t build character; it reveals it.”
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After receiving no message or card on Mothers’ Day 2020, I sent a message to my daughter, “I love you darling daughter”. She immediately fired back, “You love anti-vaccination more. Please don’t contact me again until you can renounce it.”
While we obviously had differences of opinion, I had always considered our relationship to be one of mutual respect and a sharing of so many interests – music, art, literature, cooking, alternative health, cats:), etc.
I continue to send her family heirlooms periodically but she has yet to communciate with me. I can only trust that one day she will recognize that Love trumps all else and our time on this earth is too short waste on estrangement.
Gwyneth