Put Aside the Alienation

The funny thing about having opinions and expressing them in a public way is that people might comment on them. Or take offense.

As I get more readers coming to this blog, there’s a certain amount of trepidation involving the potential to alienate people with my takes that some may consider to be hot. Or maybe “strident” is the word.

Here’s the thing, though. I am not looking to alienate anyone, but I’m sure it can happen regardless of my intentions. I like to think that I’m at least fair and consistent in my takes on things, and that I’m not making anyone feel unwelcome, but maybe I am. And that’s too bad. But it’s the nature of the beast, I suppose.

I criticize certain things and people and ideas, sure. But usually these are people who’ve come at me first, or ideas and things that have proven to be dishonest, disingenuous, or flat-out lies.

I don’t care who or what anyone is or what label they attach to themselves and their beliefs. My gripes are with liars, the intellectually dishonest, the incurious, those who are setting us on a path of evil.

Luckily, that’s not most people. Most people, even if I disagree with them on one thing or another, aren’t evil. Those kinds of people are the ones I don’t want to alienate. I very often learn from them, and I like to hope the phenomenon is mutual.

Evil people, though, can go screw.

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