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An_Old_Big_Tree wrote

Everyone's family and friends are different. Different people are going to respond differently to the same thing. My own preference is for each person who wants to engage with their family and friends to (first of all) always be doing your best to have the best politics.

Then, take some time to figure out what it is that the people you care about believe without making them get defensive about it. If you can get any sense of what kind of arguments will be good for them, then engage about them. Often it's better to start with individuals than to present to your family or whoever as a group. It's easier to tailor your conversation and also it's hard to appear coherent when you are explaining yourself on multiple levels of radicalism to people. If you're talking with one or two people then you can have more control over how deeply you go into the radicalism.

And, as with everything in anarchy, doing it together with people you have affinity with is ideal. If you know other anarchists who you have affinity with, try to get them involved. this can be small-scale, like them just prepping you to talk with your family, or larger scale, like putting together a small zine on racism to share with those close to you.

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