Can friendships survive the political divide?

[samosamo]

I'm quite left wing, it's all relative i know, I had a communist boyfriend once and he thought I might as well erect a shrine to the US Republican my views were so skewed to the right!!! But a long time friend of mine has become increasingly right-wing and last election voted Conservative in a Labour safe seat. I just can't understand her political choices at all, especially given the apparent racism of the party's leader, Priti Patel, Kemi Badenoch, Liz Truss, Dominic Ryan etc etc and her choices stand starkly against her own very humble roots. Sometimes it bothers me no end. Other times I'm ok about it, just. She probably thinks I'm a left wing hypocrite, i concede she might be right, her husband has certainly called me a champagne socialist before (I drink rum?!) None of this alters my emotions about it. I feel like my friend has been slowly replaced with someone I don't recognise, and the voting for a racist leader has made me feel frazzled.

Anyway, I need counsel from you guys. I feel we are fundamentally different now. How do I get over myself for heaven's sake?! Shes a lovely good natured person in our interactions still.

[quote Dastardlythefriendlymutt]As is Kemi Badenoch
www.standard.co.uk/insider/kemi-badenoch-nadine-white-twitter-investigation-free-press-b918747.html[/quote]

My goodness, I thought Kemi Badenoch was awful before, but no, she is absolutely disgusting. I can't help but to wonder if she has ever done the same thing to a white journalist?

When she should know the valiant efforts Black women have to make to be treated even anywhere near to equal, and she does that to a fellow Black woman unnecessarily? She is the scum of the earth.

The journalist is question is so invested in telling black stories. She did an impressive piece on maternity care for black women and vaccine hesitancy.

She rightfully so, said she was exhausted and had been bullied since Kemi accused her of being "controversial " by asking a question? (You know, that thing jourmalist do).

Not a good look at all. The worst thing is she gives legitimacy to anti-black narratives as they are coming from a black women.

I really feel for Nadine White @Dastardlythefriendlymutt. If another Black woman did that to me, I'd probably weep for days out of sheer frustration, and I'm generally pretty tough. That would really hit to my emotional soul as I'm feeling it now, and it's not even about me!

Reading this again, I still can't get my head around how Kemi Badenoch could send for Nadine White like that simply for doing her job??? That Nadine has had to close all of her social media due to the abuse and harassment she's received over this (as if she doesn't receive enough already).

I would too especially being so young. The worst thing is as another black woman you know the experience we have in the professional world, even if your ride has been smooth- you know how hard it can be. Why attack Nadine like that?

It really rubbed me the wrong way. She sounds exhausted on her Twitter. She also just lost her sister to COVID. She just made her account private because she was being trolled all day by Kemi's office staff. Can you imagine our tax money is funding government employees to troll a journalist. (First time in my life in forced to use tax money phrase)