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How to handle family gatherings when relatives express harmful views

Our extended family always gets together for holidays at my aunt's house, but she's been making increasingly racist and political comments that make several of us really uncomfortable, and we don't know how to address it without blowing up family traditions that matter to everyone, especially the older generation.

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