“Has someone youve dated expressed a political belief that turned you off?”
Sixty per cent of respondents said “Not really,” while 40 per cent went with “Oh yeah.” Here is a visual breakdown should you need it:
For those who replied in the affirmative, we gave an opportunity to elaborate. And as you might’ve guessed with our readers, the bulk of those answers were variations on conservatism (check the word cloud at top).
But a number were more specific. Here are some of them:
Anti-abortion I cut the date right off.
My abusive drug-addict ex was a Rob Ford supporter.
meat-eating or car-driving
anti-immigration
biphobia
Was against gay marriage. Dating over.
gay men who don’t care about anyone else other than assimilationist gay men
I once dated an Orthodox, pro-Israel, right-wing Jew who loved The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and then he told me he used to stage fake bombings to scare anti-Zionists.
too liberal
If First Nations want a better life, they should quit whining and move off the rez.
Nazism. Instant turn off.
libertarian
anti-QUAIA: “No politics in Pride” ugh, bye
Red Tory
She liked Denzil Minnan-Wong.
felt Mike Harris did great things for Ontario
Liberal staffer
that there isnt a problem with diversity in Trudeaus cabinet
A dude I was out with said that he was pro-life. I asked that if the sex we had just had had resulted in a pregnancy, would he want me to keep the baby. “Yeah.”
The lizard people are here.
intolerance to all religion
We just need to drop a bomb over there and wipe them all out.
Its not sexist, guys are just programmed to go after girls that way. ._. #byefelipe
poor-people-and-homeless-should-be-imprisoned type of stuff…
population control
It’s okay that Rob Ford doesn’t want to march in the Pride Parade.”
I can see where the MRAs are coming from.
anti-Muslim sentiment
being explicitly religious
classist comments (“I couldn’t date anyone who didn’t go to university.)
Trump has some valid points.
far left
extreme leftard
communist
militantly pro-union
A Christian believed that I was sent by the Devil to test him.
Not political, but someone once said he found dwarfs hilarious. I didn’t see him again.
that they didn’t have any political beliefs was a turn-off
not voting because it was pointless
joking about violence against women and laughing off #mmiw
Referring to Indigenous peoples as half-breeds was a fucked-up thing I heard once.
You mean there’s a space for me to elaborate on my ex who would always play the fucking devil’s advocate for the sake of a really long and drawn-out argument?
Objectivism
an endless rant about the Illuminati
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