When There's Tension Over Politics at Thanksgiving Dinner
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Listeners call in to talk about how they imagine disagreements over the war between Israel and Hamas will surface at their Thanksgiving gatherings, and how they plan to diffuse the tension—if that's even possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lear on WNYC so flying is one big stressor around Thanksgiving. |
| 0:15.0 | We're going to end today with a call in on another one, maybe even bigger. |
| 0:19.0 | On the Frought Holiday question, what are you anticipating at your Thanksgiving table regarding the Israel |
| 0:25.7 | Hamas war and how do you plan to handle it? |
| 0:28.8 | 212-433, WNYC 212 433 962. |
| 0:36.1 | What are you anticipating at your Thanksgiving table |
| 0:38.8 | regarding the Israel Hamas war? |
| 0:41.0 | And how do you plan to handle it? Do you plan to bring up the subject? Do you hope to avoid the |
| 0:46.2 | subject or how do you hope to handle the subject if others bring it up and it gets hot? |
| 0:52.0 | 212 433 962. |
| 0:56.3 | And obviously you don't need me to tell you |
| 0:58.1 | how intense people's feelings are about this conflict |
| 1:00.8 | and the reactions to it in this country but as your calls are coming in |
| 1:04.5 | here's a smattering of what's in the press now anticipating Thanksgiving or |
| 1:09.3 | just about communities fraying generally over this. |
| 1:13.2 | The cover story in New York magazine right now |
| 1:15.8 | is called Torn Up and Torn Apart. |
| 1:18.2 | And it starts by saying at workplaces and in restaurants, |
| 1:22.0 | on university campuses, and in playgrounds over |
| 1:25.0 | Instagram and along lam posts, the war in Gaza has shifted something in the |
| 1:29.7 | psyche of New York. Family members are confronting the vast distance between one another |
| 1:35.0 | sense of justice. Friend group chats that were once warm and boisterous are |
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