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[–] June@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your anecdote is not evidence. Because I’ve seen exactly what you haven’t seen. And the people being left out aren’t even all that far left.

But I’ve also intentionally left out maga fucks because they literally want me, an LGBTQ person, dead. So yea, I’ll ’tone police’ them and leave them to be lonely all day. I don’t cavort with bigots that would murder me given the right conditions.

So tell me, what’s the problem with me being what’s wrong with kicking maga folks out of my social circles?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm saying this for any maga types that don't realize they are being quietly left out of social situations. I wholeheartedly approve those that choose to leave these people out of their plans.

The tone police are the people in the "liberal media" that keep acting like there is some kind of moral equivalency between people that want to have equal rights, and want clean air and clean water and responsible and science-based government, and so on vs. the right that wants to put the boot on the neck of anyone not like themselves.

[–] zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Your right the liberal media is holier-than-though preachy. It is also true the Republican party is identitarian and exclusionary.