Not that I know of. Things have been close to getting to that point but I have never had it happen, usually me and my friends are of cool minds about these things and accept differences. Never befriended a communist or fascist before whose uncompromising beliefs made doing so impossible.
not quite. i've gotten into heated conversations about slutwalks and child pageantry and stuff like that, but the friendships didn't end. was just tense for a bit.
No, I don't talk about that stuff with casual friends/acquaintances, and my best best friends are generally pretty similar minded. birds of a feather I guess
More so family then friends, but I'm not too close with my conservative aunts anyways. My friends and I can have some debate and strong opposing opinions on certain situations, but we don't let the diffraces strain our friendship as we focus on what we share in common more so than what we don't.
Yes I've lost a friend, but im actually really happy about it. The conversation about politics showed me the kind of person she really is... we got into an argument about refugees and affirmative action (too many words to go into detail about how we talked about these two topics in the same conversation). It also showed me how ignorant she was and her racist ideology.
No, because I make it very clear to EVERYONE i know that politics and religion are not acceptable topics for discussion in my home. Everyone can stay friends if they stay away from those two things.
My opinion is that we should avoid these types of talking if it annoyed people, and if you care about that friend of yours then avoid what annoys them.
Our previous American/European arguments aside, I have noticed some anti-Israel sentiment on this site, which is ridiculously annoying... and I'm not even Jewish. I posted something about countries generally being ungrateful for American financial support and someone responded, "Like Israel?", which is ridiculous, because they're one of the few countries that are grateful that we support them. Apparently, if you're anti-terrorism that's fueled by extremism, you're a racist... but if you're anti-Israel, it's par for the course. An attitude that I feel is fueled by the United Nations governing body.
Family, most significantly my father. Our political, religious and social beliefs are pretty much exact opposites so it's definitely caused friction and we're not really as close as we used to be.
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