Nice People
I've visited over 50 countries many more than once, including multiple different states in the US. I've lived in Saudi, Syria Egypt, the UK. Thailand, Cambodia, Nigeria, Turkey, and Spain. In my life, I have met mostly nice people. Many of these nice people have done bad things, that doesn't fit with my ideas on religious or sexual equality, justice, acceptable practices in work and law. I often let these slide because their culture is not my culture often they come from a different place to me and have a lot less in terms of possessions, education, law and have factors I simply don't have affecting me. A devout religious belief for instance. So why can't I be tolerant to Trumpers and other Far Right types? Are they that much worse, or is it because they come from a similar place to mine? Or is that even untrue, I come from one of the great old cities, four times as old as the United States. I went to a University founded in 1836. 26 years before the US Civil War. I come from a country that has not been occupied in almost 1000 years. Who invented or laid the groundwork in Science for the world for three hundred years. Do I come from the same place as them? England did terrible things, but while the past is full of shame as is the present. For London at least a liberal city state, we are different and the future is hopeful. I have the blood of the most oppressed in me in Europe in the Irish traveler, how can I see the world the same way as Ya'all Qaeda? Why do I struggle to see these bigots as people even?