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Originally Posted by Azure
You can't exactly pick your family members. 
People have all kinds of different outlooks. Obviously I lose a little respect for them if they have stupid opinions, but I think we're becoming a bit too partisan. They think Obama is a Muslim? Screw them. What if they think Obama is a moron? Screw them too? And suddenly you have an extremely partisan country, since they do it too. |
Well family is obviously a different story.
As far as friends, there are some circumstances why I might work around it. Maybe he saved my kid from a car accident once. Maybe she's a friend with benefit and gives great head. Maybe some weird circumstance sometime just brought us together and it was stronger than that.
But it's less about them having that specific opinion and more that I know I'd feel myself drifting apart from them because that opinion would probably lead to other views and values that I just don't jive with. It's unlikely that, that would be the only time I found them easily led, or racist.
As far as friends go, well we all have had great friends, life friends, best friends that we have grown apart from or parted ways with. Besides just distance and time, if often happens because the values (one side or another) start changing, and you have less and less in common. It happens. A lot. Just a part of life. If I had a great friend that started talking like that, I am just being honest in saying we would probably drift apart. Cause our values are different.
As far as toning it down a bit, and just thinking Obama is a moron? Yeah, that I can live with, even have no problem with. I'm not hugely happy with the guy either. And that is more of a opinion that a set of values (which the first comment would indicate more). I have several friends that are more conservative than me, and even some that are, believe it or not, more liberal than me. I just don't like ignorance, and when people don't even attempt to look for the truth or let in an idea.
There is a huge difference between having different opinions, even different shades of values, and the first example you made and how it relates to my values. Miles of difference.
Lastly, I've met a few Obama is a Muslim people. And I have not gotten along with any of them yet. And no, it wasn't because I was using that to make a pre-judgement. Often it came out later after I already knew they weren't going to be my favorite person to hang out with.