Is it ok to make assumptions based solely on a political view?

thank you for seeing it, it makes me feel like im not just over-reacting or being sensitive, i know that politics can make people touchy, but there is a grey line like you said and I don't think anyone should willingly cross it

Oh Ok now im not sure if we are on the same page, i was actually talking about an issue on a discussion about pro-life vs Pro-choice, is that not what you originally thought????????

The way I look at things is that politics should not be mixed with religion the same way religion should not be mixed with politics. Religions are for groups of people that have the same beliefs. Laws are made for everyone no matter what race or religion one is. The worst thing is that many fantics turn to the bible as long as it suits them. They are willing to print quotes and so forth, then in another post turn around and talk about not needed a piece of paper to be together (living in sin) A sin is a sin if you claim to be walking in line with God. I guess some of the rules can be broken in their eyes. My thing is if your going to preach the bible you should be following it through out. Does it really make a difference if a "black" muslim man killed the soldier? Not in my eyes the fact is that someone killed another. Stereotyping will be around forever. If you pay attention to the media they only show "black" people as being gang member and thieves, "white" as being child molestors "repubs" as being racist and "dems" as being tax invaders. The true fact is we have these things in all races,religions. politics. Some just feed into the media more than others and take it as their personal bible. It is as if they do not have a mind of their own.

You and I don't always agree, but just as i made a long post to Spalladino's last response that things shouldn't be viewed as "democrat or republican", sometimes the whole thing becomes more like a grudge match more than politics or fighting for the issues, when i fight for what i believe in, im not thinking "oh this damn republican" or anything like that, and i wish more people wouldn't label people they don't know....and I know how you feel about being labelled christian because i think for the first time in my life somebody assumed i was christian in another response on this discussion, since you know me on mylot you know how this made me take 5 steps back and say "whoa" somebody on mylot thinks im christian?

whoa i don't know why i said spalladino, i meant irishidid

good point xfhactor - i've seen some of your other posts and we almost certainly don't agree on most things but that makes sense

I agree, but it happens. It's happened to me once or twice.

I guess my original post wasn't worded right, i agree with you about the constant hateful linking that you should be able to judge them....i was more talking about passing judgement on someone that just makes a statement that is not hateful or anything like that, and stating something nasty about them just on their views..if someone says something racist or bigoted, then you can judge them (in my opinion) but just stating a viewpoint (in a non- attacking way) doesn't merit unecessary personal life judgement and attack ,in my opinion

I hate it when people assume that about people that don't agree with Obama, if they don't say anything racist or harp on that someone is black when its totally irrelevent, then calling that person racist is out of line, I am lucky because I can see both sides, i have a half brother who is half black, but I don't like people playing the "racist" card, Im also a fan of Obama but because of my experiences i know better than to play everything as a race game.... its demeaning to politics and only hurts black people, or anyone who isnt white, because if people keep just automatically saying "oh you don't like him because he is black" then we are never going to get anywhere because they demean everyone into the assumption that everyone bases their opinion on skin color and not choices, intelligence, words, experience, etc.....and it still is going to continue to be just about different colors of skin, and not the way it should be as we are all viewed as one

Exactly. Like you I have mixed in my family and I suspect many of us do. My adopted niece is Hispanic and her kids are mixed. I consider them family no matter what. I find it funny when I get called a republican or a "Bush Lover". While I have voted republican at times it by no means makes me one. I didn't vote for Bush either time.

To me, in politics the labeling of "left wing" and "right wing" or democrat and republican has become almost like "political profiling", i hate it when people say "oh the left wing this" or "oh the right wing this"...i had another discussion that i posted, the article really was against republicans but my real interest in the article was that it supported the idea that many more people are becoming neither right or left, I think that no one should vote just because the candidate is the party that they identify themselves as, I wasn't old enough to vote but I remember the california recall when Arnold ran against Cruz Bustamante, i was old enough to understand politics and i knew that i was more left but i still supported Arnold not because he was "Arnold" ya know, but because Cruz seemed like a crook, my parents were the same way....I didn't like the way california turned out but still it could have been worse with Cruz.... in response to the fact that people call you a "Bush Lover" because they assume you are republican, I almost think that the U.S is like in this "defense and offense" syndrome,,,,Bush got so much flack that people are nasty and sterotype republicans or anyone who sounds republican as liking Bush and they are on the offense,,,,,people who sound or are democrat are stereotyped as Obama supporters, im not claiming to not be an obama supporter im just pointing out that in this day and age when not everything is democrat or republican in politics, this kind of stereotyping is dumb and detrimental to politics because im so tired of it being "left vs right"

Thank you for your response, and im trying to get over it but, im sure as you saw in a particular discussion, i was very offended and upset.the thing i didn't like was that this person kept making assumptions (that were nasty) about my life no matter if i told them the truth...and refused to apologize even though they were wrong about me.....needless to say i did learn my lesson and will try to construct a mylot shield over my feelings

This reminds me of an old saying Sticks and stones may break my bones but your judgement will not affect me. So yeah I changed it a bit!

Shekhar here is completely of the mark.

Whoa hey i think you totally misread my topic, first of all im not christian, I was the one who got attacked for my views,....i try to make my topics on political discussions unbiased because I don't want to single out a view of people, but i was NOT the ignorant one, i got attacked and put down by someone because i expressed a opinion,,,,you kind of contradicted yourself by calling my gestures ignorant when you didn't know my gestures

hi i am sorry. stay cool. send ur pic... i wann see that angry face.... bye luv shek india

That reminds me of last year when she was running, one of my brothers friends is a huge Sarah Palin fan and once I said that I was not a fan, he accused me of thinking that Sarah should have had an abortion, and I quickly busted out my wallet which has a picture of me and one of my dear friends,,,,who has Down Syndrome,,,,the guy turned red and didn't know what to say ...It's hard on here because there's no way to "proove" something to someone who makes assumptions like that, but boy its great when you can in person