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Would you unfriend someone due to political differences?

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This is just one of the most idiotic things I have heard of. I am anti Berni Sanders, but I don't unfriend a buddy of mine for being pro sanders. In fact, the most that came from it were some hilarious meme wars.

Anyone who is so offended by a difference of opinion should not have the right to vote IMO. If they think someone is trash for disagreeing with them, they don't know what democracy really is to begin with.



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Well a vote for a political candidate speaks to values. So if those values are far out of alignment I can see how it could negatively impact a relationship.

Personally I don't think I could maintain a close friendship with someone who plans to support Trump, with all the racist, misogynistic, cruel, and selfish things he's done and said.



padib said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:
Well a vote for a political candidate speaks to values. So if those values are far out of alignment I can see how it could negatively impact a relationship.

Personally I don't think I could maintain a close friendship with someone who plans to support Trump, with all the racist, misogynistic, cruel, and selfish things he's done and said.

People who judge their friends based on political differences are not true friends.

A person can be convicted to trust a politician or another. Though you may see Trump as a racist, misogynistic, cruel and selfish person, someone else may find him entirely the opposite.

It often just depends on the angle you are looking at something. I have listened to Trump and Hillary speak, and I can tell you I understand now a lot more deeply why Trump says the thing he says, yet only two months ago I thought the man was a complete idiot.

I had a dialogue with two girls (I know, bad move but I just wanted to talk about the things I had been listening to), and both were so disgusted by Trump. Yet both told me they barely knew what he was actually saying by listening to him. They got their perspective from the media.

So while in one case a person could have a completely hateful view about a candidate, in another case they might see it differently.

And that's OK, it doesn't make the person evil or to have poor values. It just means they see the candidates in different ways. And the thing America needs most is open-mindedness. This year's elections  prove that people are very closeminded, more than ever. I think Trump has been completely misunderstood and that's just the way I see it.

If any friend of mine likes me less for it, they are not my true friend.

So you'd be friends with someone who subscribed to the neo-Nazi party? You'd be friends with someone who thinks women shouldn't vote?

I think a severe gap in political affiliation is perfect grounds for the end of a relationship.



padib said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:
Well a vote for a political candidate speaks to values. So if those values are far out of alignment I can see how it could negatively impact a relationship.

Personally I don't think I could maintain a close friendship with someone who plans to support Trump, with all the racist, misogynistic, cruel, and selfish things he's done and said.

People who judge their friends based on political differences are not true friends.

A person can be convicted to trust a politician or another. Though you may see Trump as a racist, misogynistic, cruel and selfish person, someone else may find him entirely the opposite.

It often just depends on the angle you are looking at something. I have listened to Trump and Hillary speak, and I can tell you I understand now a lot more deeply why Trump says the thing he says, yet only two months ago I thought the man was a complete idiot.

I had a dialogue with two girls (I know, bad move but I just wanted to talk about the things I had been listening to), and both were so disgusted by Trump. Yet both told me they barely knew what he was actually saying by listening to him. They got their perspective from the media.

So while in one case a person could have a completely hateful view about a candidate, in another case they might see it differently.

And that's OK, it doesn't make the person evil or to have poor values. It just means they see the candidates in different ways. And the thing America needs most is open-mindedness. This year's elections  prove that people are very closeminded, more than ever. I think Trump has been completely misunderstood and that's just the way I see it.

If any friend of mine likes me less for it, they are not my true friend.

Oh and I'm sick of being called close minded because I have negative feelings about Trump and his followers. Not every movement is worthy of respect.



It just shows the gravity of the situation. The fate of the country and the world is being decided but somehow people don't see it. Lives are on the line. But people are still doing this. Its ridiculous that common sense has fled us.



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Hiku said:
FloatingWaffles said:

Anybody who is willing to end a friendship over someone else having a different opinion is probably someone who doesn't have much friends to begin with and probably isn't even worth being friends with. That's just pathetic.

So if one of your friends voted for Adoph Hitler, you'd still be cool with them?

As for me, no I wouldn't be.

See, this is what it gets at...maybe. Trump can argued as being a racist and sexist. This is the reason that people will say it's morally right to "unfriend" someone who is a Trump supporter, whether it been in the digital world or real world.

Yes, the examples are there to argue Trump being racist/sexist, I don't want to make this thread about that though  - MLK was considered a womanizer(multiple affairs while married), JFK and Bill Clinton cheated as well (Liberals mind you), Ghandi has been accused of racism and sexual abuse, America's forefather's owned slaves, etc. on and on. Great people have horrible sides to them. Yes, they are like us, imperfect.

Again, there are many examples to paint Trump a certain way, but imo it doesn't even matter. He's just as guilty as many others in this world, and I don't want to point my finger at any one person and say "you are imperfect" and so we can not be related in any way.



padib said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:

So you'd be friends with someone who subscribed to the neo-Nazi party? You'd be friends with someone who thinks women shouldn't vote?

I think a severe gap in political affiliation is perfect grounds for the end of a relationship.

If the person is intelligent and can explain why they think the way they think, I would not have a problem with them because they are thinking the way they do based on a conviction, on a thought.

It's their right to believe in what they do. The only basis I judge my friendships on, at this level, is intelligence.

If they are just being utter morons and can't express why they think what they do, it's an immediate turn off for me.

And I can tell you I have a few anti-Trump "friends" on facebook that just spew stupidity. So stupidity transcends ideology, and to me that's the real deal-breaker.

I have had people completely ignore me because I was a creationist, had a whole group of co-workers shun me at work (really) and unfriend me on facebook (that I didn't care as much about) because I said my desire was to live in a heterosexual world.

Even if they disagree, it's my right to believe what I do. And if I can't explain myself, or at least prove that I'm trying to give a reason for the way I think, then and only then should it be clear that I'm just a moron, and I deserve to be shamed.

But if I'm trying to understand, and it's just my honest belief or conviction, who is anyone to judge me?

They can try to explain to me why I'm wrong and I'm open to it, but why judge? Nobody should judge on the way a person thinks, unless (imho) the person is just not making any effort at all.

OK...but that's taking the cultural relativism argument to a wild extreme. Sorry I just can't agree with that philosophy. Some things are wrong and worth fighting against, even worth dying for. Some of the most dangerous men in history were intelligent and convinced of their righteousness. It didn't make them any less dangerous. If anything it made them more dangerous.



I've done it, but only in extreme cases.

I have friends from both the left and right of the political spectrum, but I draw the line when they start expressing views that I find repulsive.

For instance, I vote ALP, but I have friends who vote LNP, and I don't hold that against them. On the other hand, I had another friend who was a nutjob hippie who was constantly sharing anti-vaccine horseshit, and I deleted him. Likewise, to use a theoretical example, if I found out one of my friends thought women shouldn't have the right to vote, I wouldn't want to be friends with somebody like that.



pbroy said:
I stopped talking to a girl because she got fat. This is nothing.

LMFAO



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Lol. Why would I even friend someone who I have moral differences with in the first place?



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