No one is saying … we can’t have a civil discussion
Plenty of people are saying that, and it’s implied by insisting on ostracization for political opinions. How can you have a civil discussion with people who have a self-reinforcing low bar for cutting people out of their life for disagreements? This is how cults operate; isolate and control people by demanding they only associate with people who agree with the defined dogma.
This isn’t to say you can’t personally decide you don’t want to be friends with someone because they are hateful people. But the OP post seems to be generalizing to all Republicans, and to me where this seems to be going is a society that says, you need to pick a side, and always stay within the confines of that side’s accepted views, and only spit on people from the other side, or be outcast yourself.
It literally says “we can’t be friends” in the original post. Someone in the comments might have said cut off people from society, but I didn’t see it.
What I’m saying is I think the implication of the OP and the larger related sentiment is a society where social relationships are along party lines, and crossing those lines de-facto means being cut off from society. It doesn’t need to be made explicit for that to be the consequence.
Plenty of people are saying that, and it’s implied by insisting on ostracization for political opinions. How can you have a civil discussion with people who have a self-reinforcing low bar for cutting people out of their life for disagreements? This is how cults operate; isolate and control people by demanding they only associate with people who agree with the defined dogma.
This isn’t to say you can’t personally decide you don’t want to be friends with someone because they are hateful people. But the OP post seems to be generalizing to all Republicans, and to me where this seems to be going is a society that says, you need to pick a side, and always stay within the confines of that side’s accepted views, and only spit on people from the other side, or be outcast yourself.
It literally says “we can’t be friends” in the original post. Someone in the comments might have said cut off people from society, but I didn’t see it.
What I’m saying is I think the implication of the OP and the larger related sentiment is a society where social relationships are along party lines, and crossing those lines de-facto means being cut off from society. It doesn’t need to be made explicit for that to be the consequence.
I think the intent of your point is fine. I just think you’re arguing against something that wasn’t brought up in the original post.
Begone troll