[quote=@Penny]
[@Andreyich] Well its a bit awkward to just vomit forth an entire political ideology under any circumstances. I would certainly back slowly away without making eye contact if someone did that to me, regardless of the ideology.

But what I meant was: Is it morally cowardly to keep peoples political views separate from the rest of the way you view the person? Alot of this happened during the great facebook purge of 2016 when anyone and everyone was unfriending each other because they voted for Hillary or Trump or whatever third party candidate. If someone has political views which are abhorrent to me, or supports those who do, but I continue to associate with them because they are personally pleasant, am I compromising my principles?


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If your principles involve closing your mind (IE IF UR A LIBRAL LOL) then yeah, you're compromising them by "associating" with other people.

The cowardice angle is this: if your version of the truth can't survive confrontation by the other side, it's probably not true. And if that's causing you to cut and run from whatever social circle you used to inhabit..... well..... that's pretty cowardly, innit? 

Anywho. Freely associate or don't associate with whoever you want. I can't fathom what kind of principles would preclude such a thing, but whatever they are, I don't want them.