@saxis If someone on the left sincerely going "hey i want to understand this opinion some in my community have so I can maybe adopt it and learn".... and everytime they do that they get called a racist or sealion for daring to even ask questions... you really cant see how that would push people to hate the group and ultimately seek other groups?

People are emotional, when a group literally abuses its well meaning members, the end result is seeing your "opposing" group grow and thrive.

@freemo I’m not gonna start hating the Jews/gays/blacks just bc some snotty very online purple hair calls me names. However I can see people being exasperated by having to explain why a policy against long hair disproportionally affects black people, where dreadlocks are well within black cultural norms vs white culture where long hair is specifically countercultural.

@saxis You and me wouldnt, because you and me have well established morals that arent so fragile...

People who are still developing however who are abused in very hurtful ways absolutely might, because younger people often dont have the same coping mechanisms for dealing with their emotions.

You cant evaluate everyone, by our own personal internal firewalls.

@freemo fair point, young people might not be mature enough.

@saxis Even some adults are sometimes easily influenced too... but adults tend to be more stubborn so it doesnt happen quite as easily.

@freemo as for people who aren’t young but still aren’t mature enough, I assume they have shitty right wing views anyway

@saxis Not always... some do.. plenty of immature people who are easily influenced on the left too... tons of them.

@freemo yeah I say that in jest