Related thought, I think, I yesterday posted on Post (is there a less redundant way to say that?):
It is not a moral requirement to be kind and gracious to fascists.
This comment began as a reply to a community member who questioned whether choosing not to tolerate the presence of the fascist(s) in our lives during the holidays was insufficiently 'kind' or 'loving'-
Political alignment is a reflection of a person's worldview, their attitudes, their beliefs.
A person's values are revealed by their political choices.
In other words, show me who you choose to associate with, which ideas and initiatives, and I will be able to determine what sort of person you are.
If you opt to side with fascism, no matter what <reasons> you offer as justification, you are entitled neither to my time, my consideration, my forbearance, nor my company. You are not welcome in my life. To be questioned whether my exclusion from my life of anyone who gives oxygen to fascism, to whatever degree, is 'kind' or 'loving', is equal parts preposterous and despicable.
Voting fascist means a person is ok with routine mass murder of children and LGBTQ individuals, ok the routine brutalization and subjugation of women, ok with the incineration of the planet. But the repsonsibility is somehow mine to persuade them to be less abhorrent, less genocidal, 'please please be nice to the rest of us', by showing 'kindness' and 'love'?
Related thought, I think, I yesterday posted on Post (is there a less redundant way to say that?):
It is not a moral requirement to be kind and gracious to fascists.
This comment began as a reply to a community member who questioned whether choosing not to tolerate the presence of the fascist(s) in our lives during the holidays was insufficiently 'kind' or 'loving'-
Political alignment is a reflection of a person's worldview, their attitudes, their beliefs.
A person's values are revealed by their political choices.
In other words, show me who you choose to associate with, which ideas and initiatives, and I will be able to determine what sort of person you are.
If you opt to side with fascism, no matter what <reasons> you offer as justification, you are entitled neither to my time, my consideration, my forbearance, nor my company. You are not welcome in my life. To be questioned whether my exclusion from my life of anyone who gives oxygen to fascism, to whatever degree, is 'kind' or 'loving', is equal parts preposterous and despicable.
Voting fascist means a person is ok with routine mass murder of children and LGBTQ individuals, ok the routine brutalization and subjugation of women, ok with the incineration of the planet. But the repsonsibility is somehow mine to persuade them to be less abhorrent, less genocidal, 'please please be nice to the rest of us', by showing 'kindness' and 'love'?
Utter nonsense.