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In reply to the discussion: NYC_SKP has been banned [View all]carolinayellowdog
(3,247 posts)robotic to me. I had NYC_SKP on ignore for years as a centrist who heaped relentless scorn on progressives, and was somewhat startled lately seeing him in the anti-Clinton, pro-Sanders camp. But when I learned of the Religion wars in three different forums, which spilled over into GD in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo and Chapel Hill massacres, I kept seeing him on the sympathetic side of the equation. Not that I'm a believer, but for the first time in a long life I found myself being insulted and abused, instead of supported, by unbelievers, and supported by believers, in my perceptions of the situation. At the time you and I shared horror at the Islamophobic frenzy that seemed to unite all kinds of formerly sane-appearing DUers in that brouhaha.
So now, NYC-SKP is a Sanders-supporting believer who has both Sanders-supporting anti-theists and Clinton-supporting believers dancing on his grave. Makes me feel all the more appreciative of my real-world friends, and all the more disgusted at what passes for "friendship" online.