oockitty:

someroguishgambit:

badscienceshenanigans:

blacksentai:

White dudes have this thing where they believe your best friend in the world can have opposing political ideas. You’re supposed to be able to have healthy debate and disagreeing shouldn’t harm your friendship.
That’s gross and stupid. Its really easy to say that when all your disagreements are theoretical. Its easy to say when none of the laws passed actually effect your life. Fighting with your best friend about corporate regulations, school charters, educational funding, abortion, health care, voting restrictions, drug laws, taxes and all sorts of stuff is cool and lively because none of it is going to actually leave you in a bad spot.
Its different for the rest of us. I can’t be friends with you if you think I shouldn’t be allowed to vote. We can’t be friends if you think my friends shouldn’t have the ability to designate whatever gender they want and have that be legally recognized. We can’t be friends if you think I don’t deserve health care. Or if you think native children should be ripped away from their cultures and people. We can’t be friends if you think closing down health care clinics in an attempt to end safe legal abortions is a good thing.
All these theoretical political ideas and lively debates effect real people, and I won’t be friends with someone who disagrees with me on them. Because disagreement means you don’t see me or a whole bunch of my friends and family as human beings worthy of rights and respect.

• why I will not accept agree to disagree anymore

When people moan about how politics use to be “civil” what they’re really complaining about is the entry into the debate of the people those policies actually effect. Bit hard to be “civil” when it’s your livelihood or your bodily rights on the line

I’ve left a lot of co-workers who thought they were my friends behind over these very things.  I’m not going to stop.

American politics was never civil.

People used to just shoot each other to settle disputes over “honor” being besmirched often over petty insults that often have political origins. Or try to beat to death someone with a cane in the actual chambers of Congress. Nevermind, the brutally cutting remarks and insults in newspapers and such.

If anything, being a dick to someone or just simply refusing to associate with someone you disagree with on massive and fundamental political ideologies is actually a big step up from the olden days.