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- May 2, 2018
What do you think abot the Shoe-Lauren drama. Can you be friends with someone with different political beliefs? Do you have any friedns with different poltical beleifs? Or do you think anyone that doesn’t agree with you and voted trump is too stupid to be your friend?
Saying something is "just politics" reeks of privilege.
People did this a lot for the kneeling NFL thing. "I don't want to deal with 'politics' on my game day, I just want to watch a Football game!" What's "politics" to one person might be a very real situation that another has to deal with on a daily basis. One person might say "y'know, all welfare is cancer, but that's just my political opinion," but another person might be coming up on their insurance being cancelled because of the ACA's collapse.
I really don't like the phrase "it's just politics," I'd rather go by individual beliefs.
So let's look at a couple:
If I have a friend who's a socialist, someone who's anti-capitalist, I can deal with being their friend. Our differences in belief are over economic systems. I don't know how many fundamental moral claims we'd differ on (insofar as treating people equally, respecting people's autonomy, etc...).
Let's say I have another friend who hops into boats in the ocean to turn back refugee ships that save people who are drowning when they attempt to cross the seas. These are irreconcilable differences. I could never see myself being friends with someone who differs from me so much on so many things that I consider "essential" to being a decent human being.
To brush off all of Lauren's bat-shit insane, borderline-nazi, "trad-con" views as just "politics" is so insanely disrespectful to people who are impacted in a very real and negative why by the types of rhetoric that Lauren supports.
June is also a spineless dumbfuck, but that's for another time.