Have you ever been cut off for your beliefs?

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

He was never your friend to begin with. I've been in a lot of toxic relationships (friends, family, etc.), so I know how it is: they insist you agree with them on everything, and throw a temper tantrum if you don't — political or not.

I've never really been "cut off" by a friend for my political beliefs (I don't have very many in the first place), but I did leave the LGBT "Community" over abortion, gun rights, drugs, Southern heritage — issues that have nothing to do with LGBT. The whole "Community" thing is just a big cult, to be honest; it's abusive! The only thing worse than coming out as LGBT is coming out as conservative, at least in my experience.

Truth is: it's much harder to be friends with Left-wingers than Right-wingers. The difference is that Conservatives support free speech, and Liberals don't. There are people on the left who do support free speech, but they're in the minority.

Anyways, I'm sorry that happened to you, and I hope you can find a friend who will give you the respect you deserve.

[–]StillLessons 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Truth is: it's much harder to be friends with Left-wingers than Right-wingers. The difference is that Conservatives support free speech, and Liberals don't. There are people on the left who do support free speech, but they're in the minority.

This leads to the ever-present question in my mind: what defines being "left" and being "right"? This is a moving target, as clearly the "left" of twenty years ago is no longer the "left" today. I suspect that those you say are on the left and support free speech in the current environment simply have not yet realized that today's "leadership" of what they have self-defined as "left" have now explicitly decided that "left" is no longer an inclusive term; it is a doctrine which must be accepted or rejected in its entirety. This is to say "left" in the current environment is a religious term rather than a political one. I think the people who think they are on the left while supporting free-speech have not yet fully appreciated this new definition of "left". In their defense, this change in definition has happened breath-takingly quickly. It's pretty damned hard to keep up.

[–]Bigs 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's because leftism will ALWAYS devolve into such authoritarianism that I have always rejected it so hard.

Learning more about how it is physically impossible to work has just cemented my beliefs.

Anyone who is even slightly left-leaning needs to take a long hard think about it, and realize that by definition this is an ideology which will always be against free-association, anti-free speech, anti-free markets, anti-freedom.

Those are literally the defining features of it because it's about control, so that the individual is jammed into the square peg of the 'community'.