Which aspect of a friend is more important to you?

@SW-User Politics are a sticking point for many people. Some cannot accept that....you believe THAT?? :)

@SW-User @uncalled4 It can be a tricky thing.
For example, before apartheid was abolished, that was said to be an issue with two sides. I couldn’t have been friends with someone proapartheid. Today, I can be acquaintances with someone anti-choice, maybe someone who has religious issues around LGBT people.
But they won’t be part of my inner circle, and those are political reasons.

@bijouxbroussard We're lucky in that we're good on a lot of things, and that we don't react emotionally on the things we don't agree on. I'm not threatened at all by a differing viewpoint unless it's harshly proselytized.

@uncalled4 I was telling folks on EP about a longtime friend I have who’s a Republican and in 2013 I went with her to a Tea Party gathering in Walnut Creek, CA. We were treated with hostility and asked to leave. When I told this, someone said, "you must’ve done something". We honestly hadn’t; I respected my friend, and she assumed she would be among friends, too. But it wasn’t that way.
She’s still GOP, but totally non-MAGA.

@bijouxbroussard wow, omg😱 btw, both parts of this story are shocking to me 😨