I have got something off my chest. Anyone who knows me knows that a am pretty opinionated (and passionate) about many things, gun control, gay rights, social trends, the climate, the weather...You get the idea. The other day a friend who I have known for years blocked/unfriended me because I respectfully respond to his post by daring to question his opinion. Years of friendship...over. I am a bit hurt by that. Now understand this is a person who politically makes Che Guevara look like a moderate Conservative, we are talking waaaay Left. He was even involved in organizing OWS Berkeley. Mind you I didnt hold it against him, but seriously he would saturate the news feed with 20-30 posts per day with snarky little memes, videos etc. Some I would agree with, some I disagreed with, and some (particularly about the military or Jews) were downright vile. But for the most part I held my peace. He put one particularly racist comment (white people bad, brown people good) and I made the mistake of asking what about people of mixed descent, were do they fit in your world view? He responded with a diatribe attacking me as being a white supremacist (which is a neat trick, I identify as part native and married a woman of Jewish descent). I let him off the hook (his excuse: hes anti white supremacy, not anti white, could have fool me) and even apologized publicly. Should have been a warning. So fast forward to another one of those somewhat offensive posts, and I comment that the situation is not so simple and blammo Im out of there! Talk about some passive aggressive horseshit. SO HERES THE DEAL. If I post an opinion that you disagree with or you feel Im out of my tree, by all means please feel free to respectfully say so! I might continue to disagree with you but I will never block you for it. Because I value your individuality and your opinions, even when they dont match mine. In fact I may even value them a little more. Because its not a discussion when one constantly throws out opinions but shuts down all dissent. And how do you solve differences peacefully without discussion. ALSO, If you are one of those people who constantly post your opinions to the news feed dont be surprised if I sometimes comment to disagree with you. I am not attacking you or hating on you. Maybe as a friend I am just trying to understand your position, or trying to get you to look at it from the other side. If you cant handle that and feel the need to exclude me from your life for disagreeing with you, please do me a favor, drop me from your friends list now. If that is what you are about, you are not that good a friend, I do not need you in my life and could I do without your hypocrisy. That is all.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 02:56:28 +0000
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