It seemed obvious by the time I got to college, especially at a place like UNC I would be surrounded by like-minded people heart-set on changing the world to be a better place. In hundreds of ways this is true, yet in others it’s not. It’s easy to say that people who believe different from you are backwards, bigoted, racist, homophobic etc. Here’s my thing with that, everyone has a right to their own opinions and I’m sure that they have some good (ish) reasons that at least make sense to them to back up what they believe. My problem is the disrespect between these groups that occurs all too often. Between party affiliations it turns into a problem when someone we know is a Trump supporter or a Republican in general, there’s gasps and demonization of the person and typically distancing. I’m not sure if this divide is due to the recent election cycle or if we’ve truly never been able to reach across the aisle. Truly I believe some people are just wrong about certain things as a liberal democrat in today’s society, but I think a big thing to learn not just for college students, but for society is that most everyone deserves respect. We’re in 2017 and we’re still arguing about which people should have rights, that really trips me up. What I don’t understand, democrat, republican or something else is why, why we think certain people deserve less than ourselves. I don’t understand how an overwhelmingly male dominated government (yes, government) can assert abortion rights on women. What gives them the right to tell us what to do with our bodies when they can do pretty much anything in theirs? Why are there questions about LGBTQ+ rights when they are really not different from anyone else? I simply don’t understand the superiority complex that has been rising with nationalistic attitudes arguably erupting in the age of Trump. The idea of superiority has been, can be and will be the cause of many more incidents. In times as polarized as these, it seems crazy not to just reach across the aisle, whatever division that may be and be willing to change, listen and grow. For the world is never just black and white, if you see it that way, you must be looking at it wrong.
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