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And in case the passive-aggressive - and really childish - "lol, uh huh" was meant to imply I was somehow covertly politically aligned with her; I'm both on the wrong continent and on the wrong side of the political spectrum for that.
Please consider shaking this bad-faith miscaracterization/so-you're-saying quote + snarky comment 1-2 combo. It's not very helpful to anyone - yourself in particular - thought it might feel like it.
Being disingenuous and saying you don't know someone when you clearly do doesn't warrant any proper response, people arguing in bad faith isn't a new concept
I tried to be as charitable as I could here, I really did. Clearly you don't share the same approach to life. That's alright, it typically passes after college.
I don't know what to tell you other than I spent my entire adult life in Asia, having left Europe in large part because I didn't feel welcome there due to a mixture of my skin color and my ethnicity. I stopped following political developments there ages ago, and this is the first time I heard this woman's name.
I also happen to be heavily left leaning, and I am sick of people I politically align with, who are too busy being professionally outraged to get anything done. Change hearts and minds; stop looking for "snapplause" moments. Those people already agree with you. You've done nothing, won nothing, but a dopamine shot.
...I suspect the bits of personal information above matter to you for some reason, and that makes me profoundly sad. I wish you the best, and I hope that one day your heart opens just a crack more.