I was 100% justified here, so why was that so emotionally hard? It went against all the conditioning I've had all my life, as a white middle class British woman, that above all else you have to be polite to the people around you but especially family. The relative actually said "I don't believe in confusing the personal and the political" - this is the sort of very British middle class environment I come from, where this sort of thing is a matter of debate not something affecting lives.
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