The Art of Listening

[GMDino]

(07-30-2019, 04:41 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: Personally, I have never been a big fan of the Clintons/ So when my friends say they don't like Hillary, I tend to sympathize with them a bit.

The criteria for someone deciding they like one candidate over another is subjective, as it always has been. And that criteria may be logic and facts, or gut feelings and instincts, or emotions, etc.

I thinmwhat many people on the Right feel is more of a societal trend during the past fifty years towards things like political correctness. I think they feel these things have gone a bit too far. I feel that way myself sometimes. I also think that the minority with extreme Right Wing idologies have piggy-backed on this growing discomfort and tailored their messages to that.

My friends tell me they have been criticized for not knowing what to call a black people as a group or someone with gender dysphoria. For example, one of my friends told me he used to collectively call black people 'blacks', and then he was publicly called out for saying that. So he changed to 'African Americans'. He was also publicly called out for that ("not all black people are from Africa"). Then he chose to call them 'people of color'. He was publicly called out for that ("all people have a color"). In his mind, this seems to be some kind of game just meany to belittle hm in conversations.

Why are your friends talking about groups of black people so often and why do they care if they get "called out"?  If someone I'm talking to says they don't like how I said something I might change it while I'm talking to them, but I don't take it personally and I might not say it that way when talking to others.