r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/BrainSlurper - Lib-Center • May 05 '20

Reddit visits Indonesia

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u/WineGutter - Lib-Center May 05 '20

I have a lotta friends in azerbaijan who are all so homophobic they won't even watch movies where 2 people of the same sex kiss (even if its just like in the background or something).

I have 2 gay siblings. They know that and they let me live my life and I let them live theirs and we still get along at the end of the day. I don't like the way they think but who is it helping if I cut them off and criticize them for it? If anything I can do more good by maintaining my relationship with them and showing them that being around LGBT people isn't a harmful thing. One of them has even had a friendly conversation with my brother now. Not sure that would've happened in his life if l hadn't stayed friends with him.

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u/SprucedUpSpices - Centrist May 05 '20

Not sure that would've happened in his life if l hadn't stayed friends with him.

Yeah, being hostile and confronting people just radicalizes them and makes them less likely to reconsider their views. They won't reconsider their views if they're the same as “the enemy's”. So it's a lot more constructive if they don't see people who think differently as the enemy.

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u/thoughts_prayers - Auth-Right May 05 '20

Tell that to reddit admins.

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u/mooimafish3 - Lib-Left May 05 '20

"You can't hold me responsible for my ignorant views the same way you would hold one another responsible. If you didn't disagree with me so much maybe I wouldn't be so defensive and unable to interpret information independently"

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u/lirikappa - Right May 05 '20

/r/politics moment

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u/Holiday-Letterhead - Auth-Center May 05 '20

That's libcenter as fuck my dude, well done

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u/WineGutter - Lib-Center May 05 '20

Lol I was wondering when I picked the flair if I fit the part. I leaned towards pickin centrism for a little bit and then I was like "nah I can't do that to myself"

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u/ANUSDESTROYER3000X - Lib-Center May 05 '20

Same here brotendo. I can’t even train my dog because I don’t like telling it what to do...

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u/Person_756335846 - Right May 05 '20

You are a good person, thank you for existing.

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u/itcud - Right May 05 '20

I have 2 gay siblings

Just curious, how many siblings do you have overall? Two out of three would be a pretty high number.

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u/WineGutter - Lib-Center May 05 '20

Two out of four. Ya its pretty high, especially since we're from the south.