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If you can't coexist with people that have an opinion different from yours, you can't coexist with anyone. And if you post controversial takes or memes, you better expect and accept the controversy. Oftentimes both sides can learn from it.
Edit: Since this is apparently not clear, I'm not "siding with the tankies" or whatever. Actually I was specifically addressing them, you know, exactly like the very meme this is posted under. But I guess if you want to be offended, you will be. Please spare me the work and block me then.
There are certain "differing opinions" that nobody should have to coexist with.
Should I really coexist with the opinion that I should be put to death because of my sexual orientation? Does it make me intolerant that I don't want to hear the shit that comes out of a fascist's mouth?
Exactly. There’s opinions…..and being an intolerant biggot (“not everyone should have civil rights”) or in the context of Russia, being a genocide apologist (…”from my point of view Ukraine is the fascist Nazi country!”)
Way to twist the word's inside my mouth. I literally neither said nor implied any of this. But go ahead an be offended by whatever.
I can coexist, I just would rather not feel the need to spend 6 hours explaining why Russia invading Ukraine is bad actually. (True story)
Spot the idealist.
I'm actually a very anti-idealism pragmatic, but I'm sure with your level of deduction skills you already knew that.
Folks who unironically deny the atrocities of Stalin and Mao (but have no problem denouncing Pol Pot, not because of his atrocities but because of his lack of ideological purity to Marxism/Leninism) aren’t interested in honest debate, nor worthy of my time or respect. Hence my assumption that you were a starry-eyed idealist.
That is such facile garbage. There are opinions that can be tolerated and there are those that should not.
Say anything they disagree with in some random thread and you'll have an inbox full of pig poop balls and rage replies
you are a fascist plain and simple