> Most americans, particularly liberals but also non-liberals, will have a complete meltdown over a difference of opinion, even minor ones. Not only can you not be civil after that, they will actively be aggressive and seek it out, its horrible.
https://qoto.org/@freemo/105170335154969154 @freemo
I agree fully. When I was in college and university, while we were doing our studying and homework, we'd have political discussions. Americans who agreed on 98% of their views would end up near enemies. But our foreign student friends (mostly from Africa, Taiwan, Germany) would disagree intensely, then share a pizza.
I hate the fact that this attitude has infected online discourse, even beyond the US.
(Did not want to infest your thread with my comment.)
https://qoto.org/@freemo/105170335154969154 @freemo
I agree fully. When I was in college and university, while we were doing our studying and homework, we'd have political discussions. Americans who agreed on 98% of their views would end up near enemies. But our foreign student friends (mostly from Africa, Taiwan, Germany) would disagree intensely, then share a pizza.
I hate the fact that this attitude has infected online discourse, even beyond the US.
(Did not want to infest your thread with my comment.)
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@lnxw37a2 I think this comment would be welcome in the thread and wouldnt infect it at all. I would imagine Gina would feel the same.
but yea this attitude right here is like 95% of our problem as a nation honestly. The result of this attitude is polarization. Our left becomes more and more extremist as does our right. The more you see a difference of opinion as the mortal enemy the more you will push yourself to the farther end of the spectrum to seperate yourself from it.
Dont get me wrong this is an issue in all politics, and in ability of people to see past their ideological purity to some solution that takes the concerns of both sides into account. But in america this issue is amplified many times over.
