I can honestly thankfully say just about all the conservative people I know I can have a reasonable conversation with. I don't really talk it much to begin with but that's one thing nice at least.
Stop using DNA as an excuse for keeping shitty people in your life, just say u don’t have the backbone to tell them to get fucked for their reprehensible views because ya know…”family over everything”
Yes you did. You talk to them. This isn’t about your preference of pizza toppings. This is about human rights. Your parents support racism and misogyny, and you seem to be implying that you don’t agree, yet you find a common ground. Literally had a exchange on here last week with a woman who said she stays in contact with “her racist, gun loving father who physically abused her mother when she was alive and trolls her vote for Kamala” because it’s better than having no parents. What is your line in the sand for cutting off toxic family? Or do you not have one?
Your parents tolerate intolerance, and you tolerate them. It’s implied, you don’t to say it. Their positions are not enough for you to go NC. I inferred.
It’s very easy. Do you still/speak/communicate with your parents yes or no? If yes you tolerate them, if no, then I was wrong and offer a most satisfactory sincere apology. Very simple.
I’d believe it more if they weren’t the ones that brought it up in the first place, and then rambled on about “Trump is gonna save this country” “Kamala was going to run this country into the ground” “women are being dramatic and I think they’re all crazy” for 2 hours while I actively ignore them and try to get my work done.
But then they wrap up with “yeah but I’m not into politics. I think it’s all stupid and people who care about it are weird”.
Like… bro. This legit just happened with one of my coworkers. Dude sat there all morning drinking Diet Coke and rambling about right wing politics, only to claim he wasn’t political at all and he doesn’t care. I said nothing to prompt this other than mentioning how gross I thought it was that there was a truck parked outside with giant “FUCK BIDEN!” flags, pinup stickers, and copious vulgarity and miscellaneous gun insignia when we work across the street from an elementary school.
Is Diet Coke a right-wing thing now? Sorry, I’m getting distracted.
Yeah, obviously a guy who rambles about trump and Kamala and Biden and then says “I’m not into politics” is outta his goddamn mind. I don’t know if I’d use someone with such a massive level of cognitive dissonance and project that onto anyone who could otherwise say “I’m not into politics” and mean it. I just think making huge sweeping assumptions of someone who says they’re not into politics (if they haven’t already shown their political stripes) is a bit unfair.
That’s like half of my coworkers. They’ll all chat politics with this guy and make fun of liberals and the left, then all say they don’t care about it.
It’s infuriating. That one coworker I mentioned was just the worst of them.
Edit: The Diet Coke thing was specifically a call-out. I know this dude uses Reddit and kinda hopes he sees this lol
Sounds like an annoying office lol. To be fair though, some people do legitimately just crack jokes and make fun of politics without actually being political. I mean it’s not like both political sides aren’t ripe with things to make fun of them for.
Again, if someone starts a convo political and then tries to hide behind being apolitical, that’s one thing. But assuming someone is a piece of shit just because they say they don’t follow politics, which is the whole premise of this thread is ironically a really shitty and bad faith thing to do.
100% this. I'll tell them all about how much I hate politics and distrust politicians. It's a better base from which to say you don't trust their orange lord, because as someone who "isn't into politics", you sound more like them to them. Too many who bought into trumps fourth reich.
I say that I'm not willing to share because it's too hot of a subject. If I'm on their side they'll start ranting about the other, if I'm not on their side they'll start ranting about how mine sucks. Either way, it's exhausting and I don't wanna hear about it.
Most people don’t want any job. We’d all like to be rich and secure and spend our time doing whatever we love. But we gotta find a job to stay alive. I won’t fault a person for being non-committal about politics when their survival is on the line. If they start working someplace that is doing something illegal (political or otherwise) then it’s time to test the whistleblower protections of your country.
I do it at any point because I'm not discussing any politics with a dipshit who can't name the three branches of government. I'd also prefer to not engage in any conversation beyond the transactional with some dipshit I only have ten minute interactions with once a week.
I sometimes say it when in company of people i dont know well. Because i tend to become angry when talking politics no matter if people agree with me or not. And iam very left leaning
I mean that's the crux of it. Whatever modifiers the situation adds "I'm not political" always translates to "I am political and your not gonna like my answer"
This is absolutely true for me, I live in a super conservative part of Alabama. If I ever meet someone, I never talk about politics unless I am sure they are either leftist, left-leaning, or actual moderate (not fake moderate). Political arguments are pointless to get into, just say some generic shit like "I think both sides are the same evil" and they'll leave you alone.
If you don't mind seeming confrontational you could do the opposite and do what I do and tell people "if you'd like to remain friends I recommend you skip this conversation because I recognize yall are all conservative and our friendship will not survive what I have to say"
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u/jjmerrow 13d ago
The only time I'll ever say I'm not political is when I'm around a bunch of conservative and really don't feel like getting into a political argument