It’ll always be difficult.
Critical thinking is a lost skill when it comes to discourse. Everything is so polarized these days. It’s either you’re 100% this or 100% that. If there is no middle ground and no room for debate, then it’s not intellectualism. You’re not thinking.
For example, if you defend one aspect of a person and draw parallels to similar contexts, others will then make the leap and accuse you of supporting everything they did when it’s obvious that you’ve never made such a statement nor advocated for it (true story, just happened to me).
My goal is to be open-minded. Arguments need to be supported with facts. A good argument should sway anyone regardless of their political stance on other matters (i.e., You can lean left on one issue and right on another but still maintain a primarily left stance).
While I may take some time to think my answers through, I do eventually answer asks pertaining to these subjects.
I’m going to take a break from it because I’ve done a lot in the last week and there’s only so much I and everyone else can handle lol.
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