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Its astounding to me that people will outright refuse to live somewhere where people have differing political opinions to them. I'm not sure there is any coming

Its astounding to me that people will outright refuse to live somewhere where people have differing political opinions to them. I'm not sure there is any coming back from this level of tribalism, and if so, our society is fucked.

psychometry 8y ago
Those political opinions include racism, misogyny, xenophobia, science denialism, and more. And you expect me to respect them? Sorry, I don't think so. I don't want my and my family's reality to be shaped by ignorant morons.
- thousandautumns 8y ago
  1. The Republican Party doesn’t have a monopoly in any of those things. 2. There are lots of conservatives who don’t hold those opinions. 3. I’m not expecting you to respect those opinions and never said I did. I’m saying it’s ridiculous to refuse to even coexist with people who have different views than yourself. 4. You could help in shaping the realities of said “ignorant morons”, but instead you choose to live in your own political bubble, which, I hate to break to you, is largely comprised of its own flavor of ignorant morons. I personally am very liberal, but I live in a conservative area and as a result understand that these hated “others” you live in fear of are good, reasonable people, and whatever extreme political opinions they may have is almost always due to the same self-imposed intellectual and cultural isolation you have chosen to impose on you and your family. So thank you for your small mindedness and your contribution to the death spiral of empathy and discourse in our modern society.
  - psychometry 8y ago
    You're welcome. Good luck with your regressive dystopia.
    - eigenstuff 8y ago
      Liberal in the South. Few things. 1. It's beautiful here, you mean paradise? 2. You realize the South is THE gayest part of America, right? One out of three LGBTQ people live here. Congratulations on erasing their existence. Reminder: Matthew Shepherd, the victim of the most famous homophobic hate crime in the country, was in Wyoming. 3. When I think of infamously racist, corrupt police departments, the first ones who come to my mind are Baltimore and Maricopa county, AZ. We by no means have a monopoly on racism down here, not even close. Don't forget, Oregon was literally founded as a whites only state! 4. Regardless of whether you consider the prompt for the #metoo movement to be Weinstein or Bill Cosby, worth mentioning: neither of them are in the South. 5. You wanna know why so many Southern conservatives are all about owning the "liberal elites"? Because bicoastal liberals are often so condescending and disparaging towards Southerners in general that they even leave us liberals in the South and in Appalachia feeling completely alienated, insulted, and resentful a lot of the time. 6. "Educated people" bruh, Vanderbilt is not considered an ivy league solely for reasons of geography, and we have a national lab here in Tennessee, the hell are you talking about? If the South is less educated than other parts of the country, that's a product of us being the poorest part of the country. Do you have any idea how classist that makes you sound? Stop acting like the South has a monopoly on bigotry because you're too uncomfortable with acknowledging that it happens just as much in your own liberal back yards.
      - psychometry 8y ago
        I was talking about red states, not the south per se. Anyway, I like your rhetorical technique of bombarding me with an endless enumeration of asinine points. If the intent was to make me too exhausted to respond in point, it certainly worked.
- cwperkins 8y ago
  The funny thing is is that some of your friends or neighbors are probably Republicans and they are afraid to come out because of the name calling and shaming they would hear from the likes of you. This is probably the most intolerant comment I have ever read and I expect to find people on HN who are open to differing opinions.
  - psychometry 8y ago
    Again, don't ask people to be tolerant of intolerance.
    - cwperkins 8y ago
      The people in coal country are certainly voting Republican because their number one concern is the wall... Seriously the narrow world view of some people is staggering. You're being no better than the racists you claim to fight by prejudicing an ENTIRE group of people. Please just talk to someone with a different point of view. If they are coming from a hateful place you absolutely condemn it, but you don't prejudice the entire group. There are communists/socialists in the Democratic party, but I don't think that means ALL democrats are socialist/communist. There's quite a lot of hypocrisy in your comment.

psychometry 8y ago

Those political opinions include racism, misogyny, xenophobia, science denialism, and more. And you expect me to respect them? Sorry, I don't think so. I don't want my and my family's reality to be shaped by ignorant morons.

thousandautumns 8y ago
1. The Republican Party doesn’t have a monopoly in any of those things. 2. There are lots of conservatives who don’t hold those opinions. 3. I’m not expecting you to respect those opinions and never said I did. I’m saying it’s ridiculous to refuse to even coexist with people who have different views than yourself. 4. You could help in shaping the realities of said “ignorant morons”, but instead you choose to live in your own political bubble, which, I hate to break to you, is largely comprised of its own flavor of ignorant morons. I personally am very liberal, but I live in a conservative area and as a result understand that these hated “others” you live in fear of are good, reasonable people, and whatever extreme political opinions they may have is almost always due to the same self-imposed intellectual and cultural isolation you have chosen to impose on you and your family. So thank you for your small mindedness and your contribution to the death spiral of empathy and discourse in our modern society.
- psychometry 8y ago
  You're welcome. Good luck with your regressive dystopia.
  - eigenstuff 8y ago
    Liberal in the South. Few things. 1. It's beautiful here, you mean paradise? 2. You realize the South is THE gayest part of America, right? One out of three LGBTQ people live here. Congratulations on erasing their existence. Reminder: Matthew Shepherd, the victim of the most famous homophobic hate crime in the country, was in Wyoming. 3. When I think of infamously racist, corrupt police departments, the first ones who come to my mind are Baltimore and Maricopa county, AZ. We by no means have a monopoly on racism down here, not even close. Don't forget, Oregon was literally founded as a whites only state! 4. Regardless of whether you consider the prompt for the #metoo movement to be Weinstein or Bill Cosby, worth mentioning: neither of them are in the South. 5. You wanna know why so many Southern conservatives are all about owning the "liberal elites"? Because bicoastal liberals are often so condescending and disparaging towards Southerners in general that they even leave us liberals in the South and in Appalachia feeling completely alienated, insulted, and resentful a lot of the time. 6. "Educated people" bruh, Vanderbilt is not considered an ivy league solely for reasons of geography, and we have a national lab here in Tennessee, the hell are you talking about? If the South is less educated than other parts of the country, that's a product of us being the poorest part of the country. Do you have any idea how classist that makes you sound? Stop acting like the South has a monopoly on bigotry because you're too uncomfortable with acknowledging that it happens just as much in your own liberal back yards.
    - psychometry 8y ago
      I was talking about red states, not the south per se. Anyway, I like your rhetorical technique of bombarding me with an endless enumeration of asinine points. If the intent was to make me too exhausted to respond in point, it certainly worked.
cwperkins 8y ago
The funny thing is is that some of your friends or neighbors are probably Republicans and they are afraid to come out because of the name calling and shaming they would hear from the likes of you. This is probably the most intolerant comment I have ever read and I expect to find people on HN who are open to differing opinions.
- psychometry 8y ago
  Again, don't ask people to be tolerant of intolerance.
  - cwperkins 8y ago
    The people in coal country are certainly voting Republican because their number one concern is the wall... Seriously the narrow world view of some people is staggering. You're being no better than the racists you claim to fight by prejudicing an ENTIRE group of people. Please just talk to someone with a different point of view. If they are coming from a hateful place you absolutely condemn it, but you don't prejudice the entire group. There are communists/socialists in the Democratic party, but I don't think that means ALL democrats are socialist/communist. There's quite a lot of hypocrisy in your comment.