[lordfrito]

> To be clear- if you support what's happening here: you are a bad person. i genuinely hate you.

This is the kind of political reductionism I was referring to. It's not OK to "genuinely hate" a person (or group of people) you've never even met, based on a single binary opinion you hold.. that's some serious "othering" going on. People aren't so black and white.

If your comment was meant as sarcasm I don't get it.

[spencerflem]

No its not sarcasm.

And idk, but I'm just saying what I feel. I don't think its unique to this forum, more just what's going on in society.

The issues happening are not the type of thing where we can agree to disagre. There isn't a middle road. The ideologies behind it are based on hate and fear and greed. America's not going to be a democracy much longer and friends of mine are in life threatening danger.

I could not be friends with someone who supported this IRL or online.

[CapricornNoble]

> And idk, but I'm just saying what I feel.

You are saying what you feel, but what do you think?

> The ideologies behind it are based on hate and fear and greed.

Organizations across the political spectrum manipulating the emotions of the populace is exactly how we got to this massively fragmented culture where people feel it's appropriate to hate their fellow citizens.

[testing22321]

> It's not OK to "genuinely hate" a person (or group of people) you've never even met, based on a single binary opinion you hold

It absofuckingloutely is. Child rapists. All rapists. Wife beaters. And on and on.

Actually there is a very long list of people that I have no interest in spending a single second with.

If a person thinks having heavily armed masked men who refuse to show ID whisking people off the streets with no due process is OK, then that person does not deserve to live in a civilized democracy, and should remove themselves so they are subject to the living hell of uncertainty.