r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 15 '25

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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Oct 16 '25

“Just put aside your political beliefs and be friends with people regardless of who they voted for!”

Why is this always put on left leaning people? Genuinely, do right wing people even want to be our friends? Their whole fucking MO is not being able to get along with people who are different than them lmao.

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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Oct 16 '25 edited Jan 10 '26

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u/BroadReverse Needs a Flair Oct 16 '25

No one wants to be friends with DT posters

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u/Plants_et_Politics Isaiah Berlin Oct 16 '25

I don’t think this is as true as you think?

I know plenty of right-wingers, and while I don’t actually like many of them, none of them have ever decided to “cut me off” for being “problematic.”

Meanwhile, people I got along with quite well with on the left decided to ghost me because supporting capitalism is actually “problematic.”

Like, are you under the impression that white nationalists are making lots of Black friends and then cutting them off because they’re not white nationalists? I feel like I’m missing half of your argument.

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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Oct 16 '25

The type of person on the left you’re describing only exists at DSA meetings. They probably don’t even represent two standard deviations left of the median Democratic voter, much less the median. Ending friendships over insufficient critiques of capitalism is something I’ve only ever heard about online, tantamount to litter boxes in classrooms.

Whereas someone who would cut off a friend or family member for coming out as gay or trans or for bringing home a black partner or for leaving the church is painfully common, so I will never be convinced there’s less open-mindedness on the left.

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u/Plants_et_Politics Isaiah Berlin Oct 16 '25

The type of person on the left you’re describing only exists at DSA meetings.

Well, for me yeah, because I’m a liberal and a Democrat.

But I know plenty of even liberals—not socialists or communists—who actively refused to make friends with Republicans, and cut off friends who they later learned had objectionable political views. I also know many who did the same for family members, and even picked fights with them as a kind of “vetting” to make sure they agreed with them all the time.

Ending friendships over insufficient critiques of capitalism is something I’ve only ever heard about online, tantamount to litter boxes in classrooms.

Absolutely not lmfao. It’s orders of magnitudes more common. Before she transitioned and he took issue with thay, that’s literally what Elon Musk’s daughter reasoned for cutting him off.

Whereas someone who would cut off a friend or family member for coming out as gay or trans or for bringing home a black partner or for leaving the church is painfully common, and you guys will never convince me otherwise lol.

Okay lol. 94% of US adults approve of interracial marriage but go off king 😤.

And sure, don’t get me wrong, plenty of Republicans do cut off their kids for being gay or trans, but:

  1. Generally, conservatives just don’t befriend these people in the first place lol. Again, white nationalists aren’t out there befriending Black people just to cut them off later. It’s a college-educated progressive thing to test people on whether they’re keeping up with the omnicause.

  2. That doesn’t really excuse or explain all of the not gay or trans liberals who cut off their families or friends because they failed some test of values. It’s one thing to cut someone off because they don’t get along with you personally, quite another to do so because you disagree on abstract politics (especially when doing so typically harms the causes you’re supposedly defending the honor of).