Virginia Heffernan: UFC has the right rules for Thanksgiving table talk. No eye-poking, but you have to engage
by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times
Nov 27, 2019
3 minutes
Once again we're all heading into Thanksgiving with contagious political conversation at fever pitch. And once again we're leading with our chins.
Some of us will hope to avoid conflict on Thursday by staking an aggressive claim to pacifism. Others are planning to show patronizing empathy for those with whom they disagree. Ack.
Still others, the poorest of us Thanksgiving sods, are self-deluded enough to believe we'll convince someone of something. Fat chance.
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