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blacksentai White dudes have this thing where they believe your best friend in the world can have opposing political ideas. You're supposed to be able to have healthy debate and disagreeing shouldn't harm your friendship That's gross and stupid. Its really easy to say that when all your disagreements are theoretical. Its easy to say when none of the laws passed actually effect your life. Fighting with your best friend about corporate regulations, school charters educational funding, abortion, health care, voting restrictions, drug laws, taxes and all sorts of stuff is cool and lively because none of it is going to actually leave you in a bad spot. Its different for the rest of us. I can't be friends with you if you think I shouldn't be allowed to vote. We can't be friends if you think my friends shouldn't have the ability to designate whatever gender they want and have that be legally recognized. We can't be friends if you think I don't deserve health care. Or if you think native children should be ripped away from their cultures and people. We can't be friends if you think closing down health care clinics in an attempt to end safe legal abortions is a good thing All these theoretical political ideas and lively debates effect real people, and I won't be friends with someone who disagrees with me on them. Because disagreement means you don't see me or a whole bunch of my friends and family as human beings worthy of rights and respect badscienceshenanigans why I will not accept agree to disagree anymore . someroguishgambit When people moan about how politics use to be "civil" what they're really complaining about is the entry into the debate of the people those policies actually effect. Bit hard to be "civil" when it's your livelihood or your bodily rights on the line

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Ruger

Apr 10, 2018 at 02:11PM EDT

Its fine. If you think like that nobody wants to be your friend anyway. If you think people who disagree with you are fundamentally your enemies, don't be surprised if they remain your enemies.

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Ruger

Apr 10, 2018 at 02:46PM EDT in reply to A Guy You'll Never Know

I never said you have to. And you certainly don't have to want to. But that isn't what this is saying. It is saying if you disagree on transgender laws, abortion laws, health care laws, you must hate each other and never be friends. A black man trying to befriend a KKK member is going beyond and above what you are expected to do. A democrat befriending a republican should be normal, or the country will fall apart.

And even if you disagree, I do happen to believe strongly in my second amendment rights, and can use how I feel about people trying to take my guns away to emphasize a bit with the issues of others.

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