Save some laughs for her when she's in troubled times. I know she's your mother, but she needs raw pain in the same way she's cool with giving it to others. That's the only way these Boomers learn, and even then they'll pull some exceptionalist "but why me" boohoo theatrics.
Appalling to see people shoot themselves in the foot when they claim they're shooting away the """""dangerous""""" people.
Thing is, my mum's Racism is unfortunately born out of trauma and mistreatment. She married my Dad, a second generation Pakistani, who turned out to be an abusive husband and father. That combined with living in ghetto areas where we have experience being 'outsiders' because we were treated as a white family in heavily dominant Pakistani areas in Bradford, and it formed her opinion today.
She justifies her hatred because she feels she's a victim.
Honestly after the election and experiencing my mother's political viewpoint, it feels like my existence as a mixed race white British Pakistani seems to be born out of regretful hatred. That because of my existence and or the existence of immigrants coming to the counter for a better life, resulted in white working class wanting to destroy the NHS to get rid of the immigrants.
Unfortunately she's my mother and no matter what, despite her political opinion, she's been a great mother to me. I just wish she didn't have to vote against her self interest.
