Conservative people are the moist toxic and aggressive people for no reason
Conservative people are the moist toxic and aggressive people for no reason
I have a close friend that I've known 20 years who became obsessed with right-wing politics. even though I'm liberal, I don't make it my entire personality and life. But anyway... I was talking to him this morning casually like friends do.
Me: "Hey man. Do you have off today for MLK day?" Friend: "No, I have to work today." Me: "Damn, sorry to hear. I have off today since it's a company holiday." Friend: "Yeah, I work for a living. Guess that's the difference me and people who live in an ivory tower." Me: "Uhh I work for a living too. Idk why you're acting like I don't?" Friend: "I didn't mean you specifically. But you’re off and I’m not so it shows that you get to relax at least. You should be able to handle the truth lol. There's no shame in admitting that I'm a harder worker than everyone else. you shouldn't be so sensitive"
Honestly, he's not unique, either. I've met so many people who are conservative, obsessed with right-wing stuff, and they're all like this. They act like they're special and the whole world is lazy, "no one wants to work anymore" attitude.
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If you’ve known him for 20 years he should respect you enough that you can tell him he’s being a cunt. Coming from you it should mean something, and maybe he’ll take a look at himself. I’m friends with some right wingers who are decent people but folks like that need to be called out.
I’m friends with some right wingers who are decent people.
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"right wingers" or "decent people"
Choose one, because they are mutually exclusive.
You can still be charismatic, a good neighbor, someone who stands up for friends when things start getting rough, a caring person that worries about those around them, and still hold the most batshit insane political ideas. I happen to know multiple people like this.
People are complex, and plenty are good people who have been led to believe the most outlandish shit. They are gullible and don't put enough thought into what they accept as truth. It is just as attractive to people on our side of the fence to paint everyone else with broad assumptions. It is the nature of Evil, because evil is ultimately a boring thing that we all do every day without thinking about it.
I think the difference is between our definitions of "decent people", because I don't think a person gets to be called "decent" simply because they can be nice, pleasant, thoughtful, or helpful to only the people who abide by their personal world views while actively trying to make life worse for people who don't meet their bigoted qualifications.
Yeah, they can sure seem like "decent people" if you're not on the receiving end of their bigoted ire.
It's not even that they only accept people that abide by their views - it's just that they are oblivious to those outside the scope of their lives. They are not people who hate immigrants or other minorities, they're people who never interact with minorities at all and so get no pushback when they just passively accept the idea that they are stealing all the jobs in the US. They don't know any trans people and so when they hear that trans people are groomers, they just go "that's horrible! Someone should do something about that".
We need to remember that these people are a large portion of half the US we constantly have to fight against. They're not all just a hateful swarm, there's variety within that mass. They're our relatives and our neighbors. A large amount of these people are really just insanely gullible and don't see past their own noses. That gullibility is a mark on their quality, yes. They can still be decent human beings, despite that. They can also be corrected if you get them to understand, which I've done before. Many others have done the same.
It must be exhausting and lonely seeing the world in black and white.
Those mental gymnastics you perform daily to justify being friends with hateful morons must be twice as exhausting.
Must be nice to be able to not be a subject of people's bigotry and think that people who are actively trying to remove other people's rights and even have a hand in causing people's deaths could be considered "decent people".
Considering you immediately turned on me for having a different opinion on who could be considered "decent people", you are likely to be similar to them in their lack of empathy towards people who are different. Maybe you're not exactly the most qualified person to determine who is "decent people".
But please, prove me wrong and show me that empathy you seem to have for your so-called "decent people". I'd suggest starting with treating me like a person and asking "why do you feel that way?" instead of spewing negative comments towards me.
Where I’m from calling someone a cunt is term of endearment.
In North America it’s like domestic violence in a word. Cunt doesn’t really have a positive connotation here.
More seriously in the U.K. it matters whether the people you’re talking to are posh or working class, and also context.
To be fair though, I think it’s a sexist term, and I shouldn’t have said it.