Reasons why I’m okay with losing friends over politics: a list
Scrolled across that post on my Facebook timeline which is telling people politics isn’t worth losing friends over. It is.
So, in no particular order, here’s why:
- Life isn’t a campfire where we sit around singing Kumbaya and roasting marshmallows – our political choices impact people’s actual lives. I take that seriously.
- The way you vote could be the difference between someone losing out on their basic rights and freedoms. That’s important.
- There is a difference between having an opinion and taking Democratic action to back up that opinion.
- It does not matter to me how much fun we have, how good our conversations are or how cool I think you are if you vote in a way that infringes upon other people’s rights, liberties and freedoms.
- Unfriending over political views is a way to not be complicit in the erasure of folks, their rights and their liberties.
- As a black, bisexual, polyamorous, single mother of biracial children, a LOT of proposed policies and laws are written in a way to be a direct threat to me and my life. I cannot and will not maintain friendships with people who believe any of the ways I identify are morally incorrect and that I shouldn’t have the right to live my life the…
