I got into a huge argument with an old friend who I had not seen for 30 years, who looked me up, and somehow we found ourselves talking about Planned Parenthood. This after 90 or so days talking by phone and me going to visit him in Hawaii.
As it turns out we were hippies when we knew each other, apolitical. But his folks were actually card carrying members of CPUSA, as I found out during the period of time we chatted about this and that and what had happened in the intervening 30 years. I didn’t find that anything other than interesting, I have no need to convert anyone to anything.
When I told him that very very few people know the eugenics history of PP and that he should look it up. I said I found it odd that, if I started a local chapter of the Nazi party or the Ku Kux Klan and I called them the XYZ Nazi party or the XYZ local klaven, nobody would have the slightest doubt as to what I stood for. But not so for PP.
He just went completely insane on me, insisted we had nothing in common, and broke off the re-friendship on the spot.
That’s too bad. So weird so many of these people just plain go nuts when someone has a simple difference of opinion with them. It’s like they’re living on a knife’s edge of sanity to begin with.
You are not alone. I lost a 30 year friendship pretty much the same way. I don’t worry about it anymore. It was disturbing at the time it first happened. I figure I’m better off without her in my life. I like you guys here much more!
I’m very sorry to hear that. I know what that’s like, too. Once a couple old friends took Federal jobs, their views on just about every subject changed. They “grew” into their jobs.