My father's genealogy efforts have brought him into contact with more family, most of which he never would have found without. It has had no effect on his immediate family, and he is a great Dad. Maybe you just coincidentally know people who use it as a crutch to replace their broken family relationships.
Edit: Do I upvote this because I don't agree with it?
Why are you getting sidetracked from a message of unity with somthing so trivial. It almost seems intentional, like you'd prefer whites and blacks be separate.
I stand corrected! Just proves my point more though - even if a small population is at risk, we step in as a society decide that people should do/not do a certain thing that has the potential for harm.
But you don't have a right for your child to endanger someone else's child. Obviously there is a blurry line there e.g., if my kid has a PB&J he might endanger the welfare of a child with nut allergies. Are we going to ban nuts? Probably not, because not enough kids can get sick from them to warrant that kind of action.
Everyone's kids can get measles. Or covid. Or polio. Or -insert preventable disease here-
Therefore everyone's kids should get vaccinated. I get that our government does shady shit sometimes, but people without any scientific background take that and then believe that vaccines are some huge conspiracy.
It's not.
Science proves they work and do not harm you belong a tiny margin of fringe cases where people have severe side effects (like less than 0.1% of ppl).
I know right?! My body does has a natural immune system sweety, I don't need to listen to scientists. No one even gets polio anymore, who needs vaccines?? I'll just sawy limb off when I get gangreen from a broken limb. What's that? The same science that protects me from.infection is the science that creates vaccines? Ruh-roh, raggy!
Republicans decimated the public school funding for decades so that they could have a population full of rubes who think this guy was a genius. That's not counting the smart ones who are just trying to buy there way into policy-making that favors whatever scheme they pull in their respective industry.
Otherwise I don't see how any person with half a brain could hear this guy speak and say yeah, this guy should run things.
-made disparaging comments about disabled people and just about every minority you can think of
-touted false cures for COVID-19 among his followers
-Used a sharpie to try and change the report on a hurricane landfall path (lol)
-scaled back the SNAP food benefits programs, removing more than 700,000 Americans from receiving food aid
-paid his lawyers with campaign funds
-cheated on his wives
-rolled back standards for oil and gas companies allowing them to release more methane into the atmosphere
-pardoned blackwater agents accused of war crimes in Iraq
-abandoned Kurdish allies in syria by abruptly pulling out troops.
-held on to classified documents in his bathroom after his presidency
-has recently been indicated on multiple counts of fraud
The other has:
-akwardly/creepily stood behind women and children
-called a kid 'fat' once I think
-choose a hypocrite for a VP (this applies to both, really)
-rambled incoherently during speeches (again, applies to both)
My lists are biased (cause I'm a human and that's how we do), and it may not be black and white, but even a blind person could tell the difference between those shades of grey.
My father's genealogy efforts have brought him into contact with more family, most of which he never would have found without. It has had no effect on his immediate family, and he is a great Dad. Maybe you just coincidentally know people who use it as a crutch to replace their broken family relationships.
Edit: Do I upvote this because I don't agree with it?