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Ah, cyn, you've gotten to the core of the issue.
Your disdain for your cousins is just fine and perfectly acceptable. It nothing to do with racism or xenophobia and more with family politics.
Racism and xenophobia rear their ugly head when we talk about groups, not individuals. And that's the basic problem that a lot of us (roachboy, mixedmedia, me) are having with this discussion. We're not talking about individuals; people here are condemning entire groups. There's already been a well-written attempt to humanize the problem, but it seems to have fallen by the wayside too soon.
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