Writer's Block: Agree to disagree
Yes I stopped being friends with someone because of political differences.
It was that fated day September 11.. I was on livejournal when news spread all over the internet about a building on fire in New York.
Then all the assumptions came flowing forth.
"It was a bomb, it was this it was that" until later that day we learn it was an aeroplane...and the rest of the story.
So amidst all this was the pontifying and beating about on soap boxes....and I got jack of it.
Here in the face of a human tragedy, thousands have lost their life
and these Americans were carrying on giving the impression about how the victims of the twin towers collapse deserved to get what they got being associated with this greedy capitolist regime bla bla bla bla...
I figured that was not a socialist view they were airing. I had previously assumed these friends shared simular socialist views with me. I mean I dont think it is much of a socialist philosophy the practice of gloating at a human tragedy saying I told ya so.
And their attitude toward me, these couple of friends, was patronising. Patting me on the head sorta thing, oh that's our Australian friend, she's crazy eh..... stripping all sense of what I may have been saying to re arrage this as their own say ignoring the truth it was my sense to begin with. So I look like a silly dill around them rendered dumb as they have right of way with my own say??!!!. That day I took em off my Live Journal friends list.
It was that fated day September 11.. I was on livejournal when news spread all over the internet about a building on fire in New York.
Then all the assumptions came flowing forth.
"It was a bomb, it was this it was that" until later that day we learn it was an aeroplane...and the rest of the story.
So amidst all this was the pontifying and beating about on soap boxes....and I got jack of it.
Here in the face of a human tragedy, thousands have lost their life
and these Americans were carrying on giving the impression about how the victims of the twin towers collapse deserved to get what they got being associated with this greedy capitolist regime bla bla bla bla...
I figured that was not a socialist view they were airing. I had previously assumed these friends shared simular socialist views with me. I mean I dont think it is much of a socialist philosophy the practice of gloating at a human tragedy saying I told ya so.
And their attitude toward me, these couple of friends, was patronising. Patting me on the head sorta thing, oh that's our Australian friend, she's crazy eh..... stripping all sense of what I may have been saying to re arrage this as their own say ignoring the truth it was my sense to begin with. So I look like a silly dill around them rendered dumb as they have right of way with my own say??!!!. That day I took em off my Live Journal friends list.