Over this passed weekend I have been dealing with a lot of unnecessary stress due to politics. My Uncle in Texas, who is a extremely conservative Republican, continues to send me emails about conservative psychiatrists who have been diagnosing people with liberal beliefs as "mental patients".
I wrote back, asking for him to please stop pressing his beliefs upon me , to only get a reponse back saying that he was trying to teach me how to think like an intellectual. I was told that I had a small frame of reference due to my lack of years of experience. He told me that if I am in my 20's and I don't vote liberal that I don't have a heart, but if I am in my 40's and I don't vote conservative that I don't have a brain.
My Uncle is a college professor, and he also teaches elementary piano, but does that mean that he has the right to "teach" everyone a lesson? There was nothing two-sided to anything that he told me at all, and the fact that he is a teacher bothers me. When is enough, enough? What if I were a student in one of his classes and he said all of this to me? How could a student deal with a radical of high authority who bullies them intellectually?
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