@jalefkowit I get what you're saying, I really do. Despite this being a big part of my childhood, I have boycotted her works.
However... I cannot bring myself to hate my friends for not boycotting the things I dislike. A weakness of mine
@licho @sounddrill @jalefkowit
The notion that we are supposed to keep friends with people who have awful wiews is very bothering to me. When their wievs become too awful to tolerate? What do they need to do in order for us to say "enough"? How can I keep friends with someone who hurts me or my friends? Or even strangers?
I had a friend once, he used to be very conservative politically and we quarreled about that a lot. At some point he decided to join an anti-refugee march in my hometown. At the same time, he kept friendly relationship with another friend's boyfriend, who happened to be a refugee.
Is this enough? He was nice to this guy, so maybe the nazi march was just something I should glance over?
I had another friend, a very close friend. Las Spring she went for a volunteering gig to Israel, to help some farmer pick strawberries, because his three sons were in the army. So, what to do? Are these views awful enough to say goodbye? Or should I disregard the fact that she went to help some guy, because people who should have helped him, were away, killing innocent babies?
And should I keep close to my uncle, who's homophobic and transphobic, but he cried happy tears when he saw me after many years in another country? He's after all my closest relative on the side of my deceased father. And he loves me, clearly he loves me so much, the only thing I need to do is pretend that he's just a guy, just my uncle, who never does anyone any harm, but taught his two sons to hate LGBT+ people?
Sorry for the rant, but see - these are just normal people. They never harmed anybody, they're nice and all. And yet...
@merigold you don't have to but I believe it's a virtuous thing to do. It's not a demand or a judgement. You always have weight costs and decide for yourself, based on your energy, capacity and judgement. By staying you're helping them at a personal cost to yourself. It's a lot.
I feel that I'm quite alone in saying it's even okay to be friends with people acting awfully, let alone saying it is a virtue. 99% of the time I am being judged for *not* disassociating.
@licho @sounddrill @jalefkowit
Lots and lots of people share this opinion, it's mainstream.
Having said that, I'm not going to try to convince you, you already have everything you need to understand the opposite opinion.
@merigold it is? Hmm, maybe not in my bubble.
I feel I do understand your opinion and I agree yo really don't have to suffer through it for anyone's sake. I still think it's virtuous thing to do and friends are important. Ofc not all friends are important. Maybe I should have said it's about "true friends", like ones that you can call in the middle of the night saying you killed a man and they tell you they are coming with the shovel in 15 minutes. You know what I mean.
Jason Lefkowitz
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