Comment on For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough?
iii@mander.xyz 1 month ago
When’s the last time you face to face hung out with someone who has a different political opinion other than yours?
Comment on For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough?
iii@mander.xyz 1 month ago
When’s the last time you face to face hung out with someone who has a different political opinion other than yours?
erev@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Often. I make it a point to engage with viewpoints different than mine because my perspective is paper thin, and only by understanding others can I hope to expand it.
That being said, I am having a tremendously difficult time understanding how we can willingly just invite fascism (I understand how it happened, I just can’t understand how people actually let this happen).
iii@mander.xyz 1 month ago
One if the reasons I gather is complete desensitization to language like bigot, racist, ablist, … to the point it’s in popular usage as a joke.
You also noticed how people call eachother that for joke?
erev@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I do, and logically it makes sense. I’m not historically inept, I largely saw it coming. But the very human part of me wanted to believe it couldn’t happen. And that same human part of me is trying to grapple with the fact that it did.