lightspeedsound:

victoryforsylvanas:

rubychan228:

trans-mom:

“are you really going to tear a friendship apart over different opinions??”

listen, I got tons of friends who like pineapple on their pizza, but once you reach that “you, your community, or other marginalized communities don’t deserve basic human rights or even perhaps the right to live” level, you should just accept that it’s your fault no one wants to be your friend. 

More accurately, no one really breaks up friendships (or families) over differences of “opinion”, but they will do so over differences of fundamental issues of morality.

The fact that large numbers of people think that “moral positions, often about issues that are literally life and death” and “personal opinions” are interchangeable concepts is a large part of what’s wrong with society.

this really put into words something i’ve always struggled to articulate, especially the last paragraph. 

basically, if you don’t see how the treatment of individual human beings is less “opinion” and more “a good rubric of how you will treat humans in the future” then we aren’t compatible as friends anyways