Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
You are wrong. Different viewpoints are great - about all sorts of things. But - for example - if a close friend or relative started to hang out with the BNP or adopted white supremacist views or put a poster of Jacob Rees-Mogg up in their hallway, I would be upset.

In my opinion it is the people who would not be upset by that who have a problem.

My best mates support different football teams - fine. Family members vote for many different parties - mostly fine. Friends or family who endorse racist or mysoginistic or reactionary policies and ‘values’ - not fine.

I would probably maintain my relationship and argue with them constantly. But for you and others to be offended by someone in that situation being upset (an emotion) is very disturbing. Even more so when you label the rejection of reactionary or oppressive views as fascistic! Don’t you have any boundaries?
This is different from what you said earlier. You said, quite clearly, that if anyone voted Tory or UKIP or BNP you'd be upset. There are a myriad of reasons why people vote for The Tories or UKIP (not the BNP of course), and many of those reasons don't fall into the narrative you have provided above. We can all agree that any form of bigotry is wrong, and that includes prejudging a persons entire character based on a party that they support at an election (unless it is the BNP or Social Workers Party or other equally dangerous fringe lunatics).

You also start a post with "you are wrong". That's rarely the mark of an open and tolerant mind.

Let me put it to you another way, what would it take to convince you that someone who votes Tory (or previously UKIP) isn't a racist?