CMV: Agreeing to disagree when you share vastly differing opinions on socio-political issues is nonsensical.

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Let me paint a picture: Let's say I'm a white supremacist that believes any non-white people should be below white people and let's say that you are for equality. We talk to each other and find out our worldviews are incompatible, but you offer, "Agree to disagree," and in turn I accept this. Now you bring me around your friends, your friends before this are all in agreeance with you, but now that I'm there I start slipping in little discussions to attempt to convert them to my way of thinking. Let's say you have 5 friends excluding me. Now, 4 of those 5 still vehemently disagree with me, but 1 of them starts to listen to me. They start to agree with my worldviews. They start thinking, "Maybe whites are the superior race being held back by these lesser beings," and now suddenly you have created a white supremacist by bringing me along with you. This will then repeat again with more people, and every time it does repeat there's another chance that one of your friends, once again, will convert.

So now that we've established that, "Agreeing to disagree," with racism only perpetrates racism I have to ask, why are we supposed to agree to disagree on other socio-political issues? Still you are encouraging beliefs that you find harmful (at least I assume you find the opposite of your political beliefs to be avidly harmful to society, otherwise why do you even care?) to be propagated by associating with people who carry these beliefs. You are increasing the odds that their beliefs might pass onto your friends/family.

I really can't see how agreeing to disagree is anything other than harmful in the long run for a political movement. The only way to combat movements you find harmful is to silence them in any small way you can, and that starts in our homes.

I'd love to see if anyone could change my view here as it isn't exactly fun having to be so harsh with these things in day to day life.

Posted Apr 1, 2023, 6:52 PM UTC

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