re: #162 S’latch

I view a lot of that stuff as just hyperbole.

Maybe if it happened once. But I see it every goddamned day.

And again - I get this shit from friends of mine, not strangers or people that I hardly know. These are people who I know have long stood for women’s rights and would never say those things about women. Now it’s okay to call a woman a ‘shriveled up hag’, because it’s a political opponent?

These are people who I’ve always known as being respectful of others’ opinions. Now they’re telling me that my opinion is of less worth than theirs, because I don’t share their preference in a presidential candidate?

I see these people in real life and I want to smack the shit out of them for turning into the very type of people they’ve always stood against. They’re turning into what they hate right before my eyes and if I say anything, I’m the one who’s at fault.

Hyperbole? No, this is something far worse. I’m getting the same treatment from my own friends as I get from a random RWNJ on the web.

I can only hope that somewhere along the line they’ll have a moment of realization and feel some shame for what they are turning into. These are good people that I’ve known for years, and sadly I barely recognize them now.