How does this guy think we all kept our jobs throughout the George Floyd era?
I’m a great pleasure to have over even though the best part of any social occasion for me is the knowledge that it eventually ends. But turning every gathering into an opportunity to rant about how you despise everybody who departs from your political beliefs even by a tiny bit isn’t a conservative hobby. It’s what the left always does.
Geez. I’m not a ray of sunshine at dinner parties because that’s way too much socializing. But I can still get through that without spouting offensive political opinions. People like being asked about their jobs, hobbies, projects, places they’ve traveled, where they’re from, etc.
It changed my deeply unsociable self’s life when I discovered that to have peace at parties, all you need to do is ask somebody a question and then make supportive, interested noises while thinking about something unrelated. It was an incredible hack for an introvert-inhospitable reality.
It really is like some kind of magic trick. “Please, extrovert: tell me about yourself!”
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I would never call myself a pleasure to have at any kind of social gathering, and being around other people is very stressful for me, but I do know how to be polite, for heaven’s sake. It isn’t even really that difficult. I have nonetheless been ghosted by many people who can’t tolerate my religious or political leanings, and there are loads of others who would ghost me in a millisecond if they even knew of my religious or political leanings. I know, because I’ve seen them do it to others.
I hear you. My sister hasn’t spoken to me in years — she can’t handle the fact that I don’t share her leftist/feminist mindset and considers me a traitor to my sex. I still love her would like to be friends, but until she can bear to associate with someone as unenlightened as me, it isn’t going to happen.
I think this sort of rude fanaticism is an issue on both the extreme sides of the political divide. I know liberals like this but I also know conservatives like this. My extended family has some very conservative evangelical Christian types and you honestly can’t have any conversation with them when they aren’t a) ranting about politics or b) trying to convert someone to their very extreme church. Suffice it to say that they are insufferable and they are hardly an anomaly on the right. I am on the left and always vote Democrat but I can see the annoying issues on “my side”. (I wish the left would leave identity politics forever behind.) But surely you can admit that there are some annoying right wing wackos out there.
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Yes, there are annoying people on both sides. But only one side is allowed loudly and insistently to impose its views at work, in universities, and all public spaces. And it’s precisely the side that sees itself as massively persecuted. I’ve been subjected to years of obligatory “I need the white people in this room to be more self-accusatory in confessing their racism.” This only went away in the past few months. There can be no both-siderism on this issue when one side was allowed for years to terrorize the other with extreme self-righteousness.
I’m worried that my new book will not be approved by censorship. When I was on the left, it never remotely occurred to me to worry about right-wing censors. These two sides are not the same.
“Your obnoxious uncle who lives a totally siloed existence in a midsize town in flyover country where even people who agree with him barely tolerate him because he is boorish… 100% justifies my side aggressively hounding, firing, professionally blacklisting, shunning, and threatening the spouses and children of, even very polite, cautious and circumspect people who privately donated to a cause I disagree with, or who shared an offensive meme on the internet, or who voted for someone I didn’t like. Because some gross dude trying hamhandedly trying to get someone to go to his church is literally an existential threat to democracy that justifies the persecution of anybody who shares even a single one of his professed opinions or aesthetic tastes, while the total ideological capture of educational institutions, public funding sources, and government bureaucracies is not.”
Got it.
That poster needs to read NYTimes articles about cutting off your family over political differences and count the ones written by liberals vs conservatives. That’s the most infuriating thing about libtards. They have this amazing ability to wipe their memories, like flashing a computer’s BIOS.
I don’t understand how they are even still a discernible political entity, when there aren’t any stable, easily-identifiable things they believe in.
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