No-Politics Zone Thanksgivings

Both from 11/26/2020, and submitted by Andréa. Post originally assembled by Winter Wallaby.


Kilby adds: The climate has been changing in recent years, as this Crabgrass strip shows:


And a 2023 addition that seems to hew to the original alignment. (Added by ==mitch)

Frank & Ernest

From Jeff Stahler on Monday:


10 Comments

  1. Unknown's avatar

    In German, the “kids’ table” is called “der Katzentisch” (literally, “the cat’s table”).

  2. Unknown's avatar

    Here is a comment from DemetriosX, which got posted to the other Thanksgiving morning post, but looks more relevant here.

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    So many comics and general Internet commentary about political arguments at the Thanksgiving table, but yesterday’s XKCD cites a poll that says most families don’t argue politics on this day.

    https://xkcd.com/2858/

  3. Unknown's avatar

    I could not bear the thought of more than one person typing in the URL for that HuffPost poll, so I did it myself, saving everyone else here the trouble:

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/poll-nobody-fights-thanksgiving_n_5deece02e4b07f6835b7eab6

    P.S. Here’s Randall Munroe’s alt-text for the XKCD comic image: “An occasional source of mild Thanksgiving tension in my family is that my mother is a die-hard fan of The Core (2003)†, and various family members sometimes have differing levels of enthusiasm for her annual tradition of watching it.

    P.P.S. (†) Rotten Tomatoes rates the movie at 40%: “The Core is so unintentionally (intentionally?) bad that it’s a hoot.

  4. Unknown's avatar

    Part of the problem is that some subset of the populace has started to define any topic they don’t like as “political”.

    “So I went to Jennifer and Sarah’s wedding last week.” “Ugh, why did you have to bring up politics?”

  5. Unknown's avatar

    Was it here or somewhere else that I saw a post:
    “I saved a ton of money on holiday shopping by bringing up politics at Thanksgiving!”

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