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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you give examples?  Is it politics?
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It's literally everything, even the most bland and non-controversial comments set him off, but he does also bring up political issues including the issues he knows I work on as part of my career (I work in advocacy/policy) and he vocally belittles the views he knows I hold. These are pretty obscure issues too, not hot button culture war issues or issues like crime that one expects to come up in conversation. Just as an analogy, if my job were, say, advocating to protect sea turtles of a specific species, and he started ranting that those particular sea turtles are worthless, there's no way that could just be a random comment, it's clearly targeted at me. He is very right wing but that's not the core issue, I respect everyone's right to their views and can normally get along with people across the political spectrum. When he brings up politics I feel like he's trying to bait me based on a preexisting dislike of me that is much deeper. That said, politics may be part of his issue with me.[/quote]

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