Conservative vs Liberal

Does it really matter? As a Southern Conservative white male, I'm persecuted on a daily basis. Yet, one to one, no one on either side seems to want to converse in a civil manner about their ideals and beliefs. So what if we disagree? Where is it written that we have to hate one another for it?

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SW-User

How are you persecuted, please give specifics

ProfessorFeet · 26-30, M

@SW-User Its assumed by most on the other side of the aisle that I'm dumb, or that i hate women, or that I am racist, or that I'm homophobic. For starters.

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SW-User

@ProfessorFeet I get the impression I'm not getting the whole story ... I am really less interested in the [i]assumptions[/i] you perceive in others, I'm more interested in specific things you've actually done and said that in turn led to you being so-called "persecuted"

Moreover, what rights or freedoms (not perceived freedoms but actual ones) have you actually, tangibly lost because of your "political beliefs"? When was the last time you were, say, jailed or beaten by the government for your "political beliefs"?

Just to be clear, if you had a post deleted on Twitter because of something you said, you did not lose any right or freedom, that's the same as your neighbor kicking you out of their home for doing something they don't want in their home ... Twitter and your neighbor don't owe you very much on their own, private sector turf. You're still just as free as you were the day before. If Putin beat, jailed and conscripted you for protesting his "reservist" mobilization for his unprovoked invasion, then you lost rights/freedom and are being persecuted.