My sister and I have never got on particularly well. She is a wealthy Tory supporter, while I am less wealthy, to say the least, and on the left. For many years I have ignored deliberate jibes about the left, and also comments which she doesn’t see as political with which I cannot agree eg Black Lives Matter is a waste of time and their demonstrations just spread COVID. This led to a statements which I found frankly racist, but I didn’t engage with them. I try not to say anything vaguely political at all, but I don’t think she realises that how many statements she makes are arguable. In discussions re the government’s handling of COVID she tended to cut off the conversation with ‘I don’t know anything about that’. She also said of a friends 16 year old severely disabled son whose mother was told his lungs were too compromised to be able to withstand the virus ‘We’ve all got to die some time.’
Now she has blocked me after she got angry when I made a detrimental comment about Prince Philip immediately after his death.
Should I try to do something about this (a letter?) or accept that my, admittedly awkward, relationship with my sister is over?
