Greetings fellow pedes. I’m just feeling kinda sad right now, because one of my closest friends is basically signaling that he doesn’t want to be friends with me anymore because of political differences.

Long story short, he’s a lawyer, super smart, very well-intentioned, and thinks that he’s improving the world by believing in and advocating every aspect of BLM, critical race theory, systemic racism, etc.

But he’s messaged me a few times because he’s very troubled by my social media posts, since they’re almost all videos of BLM riots, burning, looting, etc.

So he’s reached out to me to basically say that he’s worried about me and that he thinks I’m being radicalized and he has nothing but good to say about BLM stuff, and since he views it as an issue of morality, he’s not sure if he can be friendly with someone who doesn’t support it.

Of course I have no intention of changing my mind or being less vocal, but it does make me sad that I may lose a friend due to his own intolerance of me. I wish there was some way to get through to him that I’m not the monster he thinks I am, but the more I explain myself, the less he seems to actually hear me.