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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It must be tough for all the dems when they cross the Bay Bridge and enter enemy territory on their way to the nice Bay House or Beach enclave. [/quote]

It must be odd for those who insist upon seeing everything in dichotomies.  It must be even odder to hate and/ or fear what you don’t understand.

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No kidding. I live in a red part of Maryland. People overall are pretty decent, and we don't sit and talk politics all day, or much at all actually. I don't assume the older white guy who made my sandwich yesterday is a vile racist just because he has a Trump sticker on his pickup truck. I've been going to his shop for a while now, and he's a decent guy in my experience. Same for the parents in my kids' classes. Sure my daughter's friend's father was out on a hunting trip two weeks ago because deer season started, which never happened when we lived in the DC area. Hunting is not my thing, but so what?[/quote]

I grew up in a place like the red parts of Maryland; my family is people like that. I'm not hating anything I don't understand, but yeah I assume a guy with a Trump sticker on his truck is racist, even if he also seems like a decent guy. My family is full of "decent people" who are actually really racist. I don't cross the Bay Bridge and think I'm in "enemy territory," but I also don't kid myself about how people actually are.[/quote]

Isn't that the problem? Do you assume people of a certain race are criminals because of how they dress or the music they listen to?

I judge people by their actions.[/quote]

Having a Trump sticker on your car is an action. It's not like race at all or even like musical or dress preferences. It's a statement of what you believe. You can judge people by their beliefs, that's not "the problem."[/quote]

Like.. how you dress and the music you listen to. That's signaling beliefs also, isn't it?[/quote]

Sometimes. Generally speaking aesthetic preferences are just aesthetic preferences. In cases where they clearly signal belief though, I'd be fine with people judging off that. If I decided to walk down the street wearing a shirt that said "Pedophilia is awesome," I'd get judged for that, and it wouldn't be wrong.[/quote]

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