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[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Don't play the privilege card on my.

I'm LGBT and not only the "already accepted" letters, some of the not as widely accepted too. I can still be calm even knowing that the party I'm talking about will put me in danger. This other person doesn't want to put me in danger and she doesn't think voting for that party would put me in danger. We disagree in that and I respect her thoughts. I don't feel like cutting social connection over making assumptions that are not necessarily true.

As I said. I'm a very calm person, and in later years politics have been pivoting away from my thoughts, and I don't get as heated about them as I used to.

And, as I also said, I can be mistaken too. I do think this party will put me in danger. Imagine I cut ties with this person and that they get power (they will in two years top anyway giving current situation). And they truly do nothing that put me in danger. With which face could I look myself in the mirror after that? I prefer to be careful. I think they are dangerous, I will not vote for them. But I won't start bashing people that vote them for reasons that so not directly imply hurting me.

For instance this person doesn't even vote them for anything LGBT related. She vote for them mostly out of spite for the current socialist party (which I can see more clear that in some aspect she was right, they were stealing from us).

So giving this situation I really don't think I could hate this person. And I think many would be in similar positions.

[-] webadict@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Don't play the privilege card on my.

I absolutely will. Because you are ignoring yours. Being a part of a disadvantaged group doesn't mean you don't have privilege elsewhere. In fact, sometimes, that is the reason why you might ignore your privilege.

You are able to be calm with your friend because you do not see there is a danger. People like your friend haven't hurt you. But would everyone else do the same? Your friend supports people that will hurt people like you, but do they think they can stop those people from hurting you?

I would rather lose a friend who didn't want me hurt but supported people who would hurt me because that is not a logical view, no matter how calmly it is spoken.

this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2025
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