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Meghan McCain's recent departure from "The View" and her comments on her experiences there has made me realize something I never thought about.

While on Sean Hannity's show, Meghan spun a similar to story to what Dave Rubin has been saying for years, something along the lines of "I spent a significant amount of time around people who were at least nominally liberal and they weren't very nice to me, but my experiences around conservatives has been the total opposite." Listening to that made me realize that a great many times I've argued politics with people, they'll tell me that people of one belief are mean and nasty to them while people of another belief are welcoming and accepting. And now I'm thinking, does it really matter? If I were to meet every single person who agreed with my politics and they were jerks to me, and then I met every single person who is strongly opposed to my politics and they were really nice to me, would that change my opinion? Because it shouldn't, but at the same time, human nature might make it difficult to stick to convictions in a hypothetical situation like that.
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ViciDraco · 41-45, M
A lot of the alt right pipeline actually depends on that. There is a lot of emphasis on not only being kind and welcoming, but in pointing out how unkind and intolerant liberals are as a way of isolating people from mixed opinions and drawing them more firmly into the comfortable echo chamber where anything too extreme is just a joke, until it's not.
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@ViciDraco It reminds me of a very old episode of "Clear Blue Water" in which an extremist agenda manages to recruit Eve's best friend because they had chocolate chip cookies when all the other party promoters only had sugar cookies.
ViciDraco · 41-45, M
@BlueMetalChick haha. Chocolate has special power