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Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
I find it so tense when I am in a room where someone expresses a political view different from mine and then I wonder... why? Its not about me or them. Its a belief that really, in everyday real life, would never get in between us in any other way... Then I get over t.
Do you take it personally?
why is it such a tense, personal thing anyway?
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Posted 10/24/08 9:55 PM  |
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MrsRbk
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
nope...
There are quite a few things my husband and I don't agree on, and I certainly don't take it personally.
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| Posted 10/24/08 9:56 PM |
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
Message edited 11/22/2011 6:14:17 PM.
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| Posted 10/24/08 9:57 PM |
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smdl
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
No. Unfortunatelly some people do. I don't mind strong opinions but some people have no control.
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| Posted 10/24/08 9:57 PM |
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JRD2008
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
not at all. My best friend and I are completely opposite when it comes to politics. I still love her to death. It's all about your own personal beliefs and values.
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| Posted 10/24/08 9:58 PM |
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maiden
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
Posted by lipglossjunky73
why is it such a tense, personal thing anyway?
Thats a good question. Why? Religion and politics, people get very defensive...Depending on who it is, I can feel defensive too.....I want to think about this before I state a reason.....I don't want to say anything that doesn't make sense.
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| Posted 10/24/08 10:00 PM |
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Jenn627
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
I do! I can't believe you wrote this! I was just listening to someone close to me talk about their political beliefs and I froze. I couldn't even nod at them.
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| Posted 10/24/08 10:00 PM |
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Jenn627
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
You're right - it has absolutely nothing to do with our relationship but still, I tensed and wondered why...
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| Posted 10/24/08 10:01 PM |
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
What is it about it? Especially when its not in a derogatory way - I mean, I can understand if the political belief is coming from a racist or bigoted place, but when it isn't, people still get bent out of shape.
Isn't it weird?
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| Posted 10/24/08 10:04 PM |
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GioiaMia
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
yes, i dont know why though - it makes me uncomfortable
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| Posted 10/24/08 10:05 PM |
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Cpt2007
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
nope, I don't.
I *think* people get tense abt it b/c it's a statement of beliefs, which is sometimes different than your own. it's the difference b/w a belief and an opinion, if that makes sense...
hard to explain. 
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| Posted 10/24/08 10:09 PM |
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Jenn627
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
For me it's a person that I just recently became close to.
I thought we shared a lot of the same values, ideals, characteristics, and then - poof - I questioned every single thing I thought about this person.
Mostly because I thought I knew them differently.
It wasn't bad in any way - just surprising. We are voting for the same candidate but for different reasons. Their reasons shocked me - they were valid - but shocked me nonetheless.
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| Posted 10/24/08 10:09 PM |
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smdl
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
I think people take it personally because it is in human beings to believe in a cause, something, someone and to believe how their life/aspiration should be.
So when someone challenges it, it shakes us to our very core.
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| Posted 10/24/08 10:13 PM |
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evnme
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
i dont take it personally
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| Posted 10/24/08 10:26 PM |
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Superkat
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
Heck no. Opinions are like buttholes. Do I have to say more? 
Honestly, I am open minded enough to listen to another person's POV but once it becomes emotional, I tune them out. If you can't present it with rational behavior, then I am pretty sure I am not going to respect you or your opinion. 
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| Posted 10/24/08 10:31 PM |
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
I don't know, it depends on my mood
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| Posted 10/24/08 10:31 PM |
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Kate
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
I can see how it can happen. On certain subjects, your political beliefs come from deeply held moral beliefs, and I can see how it can be tense to hear someone hold the opposite view.
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| Posted 10/24/08 10:36 PM |
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
Posted by Kate
I can see how it can happen. On certain subjects, your political beliefs come from deeply held moral beliefs, and I can see how it can be tense to hear someone hold the opposite view.
But its coming from that very same place in someone else - why is it hard to grasp and appreciate that?
Not directed towards you, just a general question on how humans think and behave....
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| Posted 10/24/08 10:45 PM |
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Jackie24
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
No however if they begin to judge me based on my beliefs
thats when I get mad........everyone is entitled to their own
opinion.
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| Posted 10/24/08 11:36 PM |
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OStewarts
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
no, not at all. in my view, if you want to argue or talk politics, you better be able to listen to and consider the positions of the other side. i have had some knock out, drag out arguments with those that were firmly on the other side and i dont take it personally.
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| Posted 10/24/08 11:51 PM |
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MrsERod
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
nope
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| Posted 10/24/08 11:52 PM |
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Christine
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
No, I don't expect everyone I know to share my political beliefs or opinions.
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| Posted 10/25/08 1:09 AM |
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
Nope, not at all.
Actually, i don't really take anything at all personally- i always just assume its the other person's problem 
I don't see how just having a difference of opinions could be taken as a personal issue. I mean, if they make a personal attack on you based on that belief, yes, but that's a different situation.
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| Posted 10/25/08 1:33 AM |
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
No. I usually don't get that into political discusssions w/others.
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| Posted 10/25/08 8:47 AM |
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Re: Do you take it personally when someone doesn't agree with your political choices/beliefs?
I don't take it personally as long as I am not attacked or put down for what I believe or what my views are. I believe that you have the right to believe whatever you want to, but you have to respect my right as well.
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