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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: You aren’t inherently racist/sexist/whatever by voting for someone

The amount of times I see pure hate here because you didn’t vote for the right party, or even candidate in the same party, really sucks. This may be a US thing, but politics doesn’t need to be inherently divisive. You don’t need to hate your neighbor for voting different, they simply value different things.

This “my side is always right” mentality has so many consequences that are negatively affecting our democracy and stopping progress. Please, just be more open. You can disagree, but at least be respectful and understanding about it.
gpt
Your title is literally true, so not sure how we can your view on it. It is *possible* for someone to vote for a racist candidate without being racist themselves (to the extent that anyone can be not racist, of course).

That said:

>This may be a US thing, but politics doesn’t need to be inherently divisive. You don’t need to hate your neighbor for voting different, they simply value different things.

You can't just brush off people's values as a bad reason to dislike someone. A person's values speak to the type of person they are. And when people vote that is an action that impacts others. Politics isn't a casual competition with no consequences. It's actual life and impacts people's rights, their livelihoods, their security.


Say you have a candidate that supports lower taxes and restricting the right to vote to men only. You really value lower taxes so you vote for that person. That says, at the least that you support lower taxes enough to overlook sexism. Why would that not be a good reason to dislike someone?