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I think people agreeing about politics is universally more toxic than people disagreeing. Discussions in which all the involved parties agree, but are obsessive
by ouid 7y ago
I think people agreeing about politics is universally more toxic than people disagreeing. Discussions in which all the involved parties agree, but are obsessively defending themselves against an imagined foe tend to generate a hell of a lot more moral grandstanding than ones in which actual conflict exists.
- dvtrn 7y agoI've found myself on the receiving end of this 'obsessive defense' more than once in the past and had to completely halt a conversation in order to firmly but compassionately ask the person if they thought I was disagreeing with them and then show them how through statements we've both made we were in complete agreement. The tenor of the conversation changed almost instantly. It's forced me to be hyper specific when approaching certain topics, but that hasn't come without it's own uncomfortable externalities of conversation.
- mrtaway90210 7y agoI agree with you. I've been a life-long progressive and i'm [secretly] voting for Trump and all GOP candidates this time around? Why? because I saw the hipocracy in my own party. I live in NYC and recently, when push came to shove, progressives needed to find a group to bear the cost of their progressive decisions. Instead of bearing the cost equally (as I would have liked) they pushed the cost onto a minority subgroup (asians). I'm speaking about schooling and how they decided to choose the three schools in a city of 7 million to "de-segregate" (and those three schools happened to be majority asian.)