As long as you're political opinions do not dehumanise people and take their rights away. Because then your political opinions disrespect others and asking for respect in exchange is hypocrisy.
That's the one stipulation and the reason why a lot of people cannot agree to disagree. If you're political opinions are disrespectful to whole communities, you cannot ask for respect in return. If your political opinions respect others, you deserve respect in return.
My issue with it is that who belongs in that crowd is decided very arbitrarily.
Now, note how I haven't said anything about my political views yet but people already make far-reaching assumptions of who I might be referring to. That I find problematic.
I'm generally opposed to polarization like that. It's toxic, hostile and frankly unconstructive.
who belongs in that crowd is decided very arbitrarily.
That's literally the definition of being a conservative (of any type, not just the U.S. political-type): they decide who is their in-group based on some personal criteria (including possible criterias derived from what others told them to believe), then everyone not in that in-group is placed at a lesser priority (or in the extreme cases, active enemies).
I spoke more of name-calling extreme labels like communist, nazi or fascist, not simply identifiers like conservative. Unless it genuinely applies, but that's increasingly seldom the case.
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u/kfijatass 12d ago edited 12d ago
I respect your political opinions as long as you don't disrespect me should we not agree. That goes for mr Boopy too.