In Australia, atm, the “current thing” is the Aboriginal Voice to Parliament, aka an unelected third chamber in our national parliament, further dividing the country by race…
Aaand I’ve already lost leftist social media “friends” over it. Not by posting about it. Not even by commenting. But by “liking” posts and/or pages that they disagree with…
“Be on the right side of history”, they cry, while steadily restricting their “friends” to only those who think exactly the same…
It’s bizarre. It really is utterly bizarre.
I don’t tend to do the same, on my end, because, I guess I’m not so “intolerant” of differing views. So I just find the whole idea rather bizarre…
Then again, the kind of people to “proudly” have politics in their profile pics/on their homepages are probably not the types you want around, anyway…
I just find it bizarre, though.
And these are graduates, for fuck’s sake.
No wonder things are so fucked, lol.
Broad addition to this: I find the concept of “one strike” or even “two strike” “friendships interesting…
I would say the vast majority of my friendships have been like this. Relationships, too.
Like, you fuck up once, and that’s it - “friendship” over.
Not even something serious. Like, say, you make an “off colour” (not racist) joke, or you’re late once, or something…
Or you don’t sufficiently bow down before some “woke” cause.
Previously, that was closing Ayers Rock to climbing (yes, really, I lost friends for saying I disagreed), or not “believing all women” during #MeToo. Then it was gay marriage. Now it’s this stupid fucking third chamber of parliament shit…
It just frustrates me, the fickleness of people…
And yeah, that’s on me. Of course it is. But if that’s “enough” for a friendship to end… Was it ever a true friendship in the first place?
A friendship based on 100% agreement on every topic was never a friendship in the first place. They were just waiting for the chance to stab you in the back over the slightest perceived 'injustice' for social credit.
Glad to see you call it Ayers Rock and not that Ululululuru garbage.
Yeah, I've had issues with family over #metoo and feminism.
It's not just a purity spiral, imo; they literally are mentally incapable of having a disagreement. They assume (smugly) that you agree with all of their assertions and, of you don't, you must be personally attacking them.
I've got no problem having the "difficult discussions" Leftists are always talking about, but they can't seem to debate without turning it into a struggle session.