05-17-2020, 11:50 PM
(05-17-2020, 11:17 PM)GreenCornBengal Wrote: What is your criteria for identifying those to be abrasive to? Is it a MAGA hat?? I get that there are groups of folks on both sides that are uncivil, but how do you judge who are in those groups? To me it sounds like you’re generalizing an entire group of people into what is really a small to medium subset of supporters... which holds a level of irony I won’t get into in this post.
I’ve met plenty of supporters who aren’t confrontational and look down on the individuals who are. I feel you wouldn’t even give someone a chance to be that though. It’s too bad you met some crummy individuals that broke your opinion of others... but let me remind you that he did win the election, so there are more supporters out there than you’d think and clearly they aren’t all confrontational assholes as you make them out to be...
FWIW, I got to the podium and couldn’t vote for either scumbag running for the position. Just wanted to make it clear I’m not part of the group you have probably already lumped me into.
Dude I could tell you weren't from the start of the conversation. It's not hard.
I live in an environment where non-Trump supporters are the exception, to be honest. I look down my phone messaging list, and 9 out of 10 text threads are with Trump supporters. I have to be pushed to a pretty extreme point to discuss politics with them, because otherwise they are people I like.
I'm just averse to letting them get away with talking BS because they're used to not getting called out for it. They only converse with people that believe what they do. Some of the BS is so extreme that I just can't let it slide anymore.
When people trust you, and they're friendly enough to say what they really think, things they wouldn't say in public slip out. I've heard a lot of this kind of stuff, and it's certainly shaped my view of the whole movement, and to be honest, some of them are bad enough that I'd rather not be specific.