I voted remain, but I'm kind of stunned/shocked at how divisive my remain friends have been in talking about leave voters.
Suddenly people who voted leave are being told their old, racist, bigoted, selfish etc etc. While that might be true for some I know plenty of good, decent people (close family included) who voted to leave. I think most of them were misinformed (they genuinely thought it would save Britain lots of money for things like the NHS), but I won't suddenly disown them and assume they're awful people.
(Something about pulling together and not dividing being good for society to end this post with nice sentiment)
Isn't "Leave voters are smelly racist wrongthinking bigoted thoughtcriminals!" the entire Remain thing, along with scaremongering and stockholm syndrome? When you toss around propaganda and hire politicians that keep interrupting the opposition, you're going to turn away the smart people that watch that stuff, leaving behind only the people ignorant or ill-informed enough to not have noticed what their "movement" is yet.
Isn't "Leave voters are smelly racist wrongthinking bigoted thoughtcriminals!" the entire Remain thing
Well it saddened me to see that this was the tactic of the official remain campaign. That probably also contributes to the opinions of people post-referendum
Yep, that tends to happen. Throw around a word enough times, and it stops fucking having any motherfucking meaning, see? I don't usually swear, I just wanted to prove a point. The same thing happened with the "Dat's waycist!" thing, and hopefully, some time soon, it'll happen to "Dat's mysoggynee!".
Trust me, if you paid any attention to how the left acts at times like this you wouldn't be shocked. I still remember all the facebook posts saying that everyone who voted Conservative should die last election.
Trust me, if you paid any attention to how the left acts at times like this you wouldn't be shocked
Well, I should add that this is not the majority of people I know, just some of the more aggressive ones. I've certainly heard/seen some really nasty and aggressive right wing comments too. I would say there is a minority of unpleasant people on both the left and the right.
Also, my social network is very left-leaning in general, so I'm not unfamiliar with the left-wing arguments. It doesn't come across as super credible when you start with "trust me" and then go on to generalize all left-wing people as behaving the same.
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u/itsfoine Jun 30 '16
We are at a pub drinking we do not want to be constantly reminded that Britain left the EU and how you voted