{"id":607717,"date":"2021-07-31T20:51:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T00:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=607717"},"modified":"2021-07-31T20:51:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T00:51:18","slug":"graham-you-cant-be-friends-with-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-you-cant-be-friends-with-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: You Can\u2019t Be Friends With Conservatives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraham-you-cant-be-friends-with-conservatives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=607717&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BD0AD64B-121A-4791-957E-B62F1B669FE8-scaled-e1627680093786.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>One of the most obvious misconceptions about liberals today is that they personify tolerance. The Oxford English Dictionary defines tolerance as \u201cthe ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A recent poll by the Survey Center on American Life at the American Enterprise Institute found that Democrats are twice as likely as Republicans to report ending a friendship over a political disagreement (20% versus 10%). Liberals are also \u201cfar more likely than conservatives are to say they are no longer friends with someone due to political differences\u201d (28% versus 10%). However, \u201cno group is more likely to end a friendship over political differences than liberal women \u2014 33% responded they stopped a friendship over politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was underlined by CBS News digital reporter Kathryn Watson, who tweeted out a chart of some of these numbers, adding, \u201cThis is so wild to me. I can\u2019t imagine not having friends across the political spectrum.\u201d Twitchy.com captured a flock of \u201ctolerant\u201d leftists expressing hot outrage at this notion.<\/p>\n<p>First up was Aaron Rupar, a Vox reporter who\u2019s popular on lefty Twitter: \u201cIt\u2019s hard to be friends with intolerant and irrational people.\u201d That\u2019s classic: I\u2019m not intolerant. I am intolerant of the intolerant.<\/p>\n<p>Race and racism worked its way in. The account \u201cMore_moxie\u201d tweeted, \u201cTell me you\u2019re a straight white without telling me you\u2019re a straight white.\u201d Jersey Craig added, \u201cSiri, what is white privilege?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPowerful Mel Ankoly\u201d joked with this interpretation: \u201cI\u2019ve got Klan friends and non-Klan friends!\u201d Leftists imagine you can\u2019t possibly be a Republican without being a Klansman. Aren\u2019t these people supposed to be the ones who are intellectually nimble and adept at nuance? No.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGOPocalypseNow\u201d added, \u201cShorter Kathryn Watson: \u2018it\u2019s only normal to have friends who are racist traitors.&#8217;\u201d Here\u2019s just one more from \u201cMasked Carpenter,\u201d who arrogantly announced: \u201cI don\u2019t want to be friends with racist, anti-science people who support a police state. But that\u2019s just me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Derek Thompson of The Atlantic, whose tweet Watson retweeted, deleted the tweet, perhaps to evade incoming fire at his account. He later tweeted in support of the notion that Twitter \u201cis mostly a Dutch oven of indignation.\u201d Or: Twitter is full of some of the most intolerant, bullying leftists on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know Kathryn Watson. She\u2019s not a friend of mine. But I have liberal friends, and I don\u2019t generally speak about politics in mixed company unless I\u2019m asked about it. That\u2019s out of a sense of keeping the peace. Decades ago, my wife insisted this would be the wisest course.<\/p>\n<p>The Survey Center found 55% of their sample said they discuss politics or government with their friends less than a few times a month. There\u2019s a fear there of losing friendships, and even jobs if you\u2019re talking to work friends. Social media has enhanced the heat of our political interaction. So has former President Donald Trump, who has enraged the left further into its already-increasing intolerance.<\/p>\n<p>Today, merely stating to friends that Trump did anything right as president could cause a frothing horror. The same thing could happen after saying \u201call lives matter,\u201d \u201cthere are two genders\u201d or \u201cChina is responsible for the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, imagine people you\u2019ve just met. It\u2019s sad when you\u2019re conservative that people can\u2019t see any dimension of you except the political one. You\u2019re immediately a \u201cracist traitor\u201d unless proven otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cprogressive\u201d thought-cartooning just sadly calls to mind the 1980s movie \u201cWarGames\u201d about simulating global nuclear war: \u201cThe only winning move is not to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most obvious misconceptions about liberals today is that they personify tolerance. 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