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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll try to make it as general as possible. What if there is a hot topic, A  vs B. Say most people around you support A. You do, too, but you have questions or doubts about A, or you can understand (but not support) B’s reasoning. you don’t perceive A as something flawless. 
However if you ask those questions, or even don’t support A with all your heart, you are labeled as (insert whatever insult du jour you can think of). 
How to deal with it? 
I find that in the most recent conflicts I can’t support one side without reservation, yet it seems like I am expected to. I am genuinely scared of all the silence is violence type tropes. [/quote]
What I have notified in regards to this kind of thing is that when people don’t voice “appropriate” support for something (trans rights, Israel/Palestine, immigration seem to be the biggies) it’s not the lack of support that I comment on; you can have your own beliefs. It’s the fact that people use the exact same wording as right wingers when talking about it.

Let’s take immigration. Yes, I can agree that there has been a large influx of immigrants, perhaps more than what we can absorb/assimilate/educate the children etc. Should there be some limits? Absolutely, and let’s legislate that rather than just moaning and wailing about it, right? Wrong, according to some. The moment anyone frames their opposition to immigration as “the Democrats support OpEnBoRdErS,” I’m not thinking that they have real reservations with immigration, I’m thinking, huh. it’s weird that they’re verbatim repeating Republican talking points that manage to let Republicans off the hook for governance failure.

Furthermore, as in so many things, only Democrats get dinged for this. Republicans just march in lockstep and demand the same from their followers and no one seems to blink. I accept that I might be wrong about that, but I’m gonna guess that OP means at least one of the three biggies I mentioned and is only upset with Democratic response to her Republican talking point doubts. [/quote]

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