LogFAQs > #890000419

I'm all over the place. I regularly play board games at my local game store with several people who have political beliefs different from my own, but I wouldn't call us friends.

I don't know the political beliefs of many of my best friends because we know we can't talk about it without taking the conversation to some contentious ground, so we've avoided the topic for years. I had a difficult time getting them to talk to me about any quirky or alternative topic that deviated away from our shared interests.

Others of my best friends I met pounding the streets during an anti-war protest last decade, and the 2009 National Marriage Equality March, so of course we feel more comfortable discussing more elusive issues, because I trust the person I'm talking with. But we don't always share the same geeky power level.

Even in activism circles, people with whom you are generally friendly don't always have overlapping political interests. Climate activists won't necessarily be LGBT advocacy activists, or education activists, or reproductive rights advocates. While there is some overlap, it's pretty uncommon to see the same person in all those circles.
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