Would you crew on a boat where the owner has 'opposite' political views?

[SSOCK]

It's off season, and I have met the owner and some of the crew. Meh, it seems that they are newer sailors and they could use some help.

I think that it could be a good fit as they are not all 'rockstars' that do not take suggestion.

Owner FB 'friends' me and seems to spout a lot of political opinion / stuff that I do not necessarily agree with.

Do I keep it in my hat (as we ALL have previously raced with / for owners that we do not share the same political views)?

I am inclined to give it a try and see how things shake out, if I do not like it, I can always bail I guess.

Flame On and no I am not LR or Left Hook or even Snaggie..

 

[RobbieB]

All the time!  Do you have any friends that have different political views?  It's called democracy.

 

[Willin']

I'm fine with other people having opinions at odds with mine as long as it all stays compartmentalized. Most of my friends and family are mannered enough to not bring politics up as a general topic in order to maintain the domestic tranquility and things work out just fine.

The fact that the boss posts political commentary on media tells me he's not one of these. My instinct would be to steer clear.

I sold my boat to an otherwise nice guy that couldn't not make snide comments about how libruls have ruined everything. By the end of 2 days of it, if the money hadn't already changed hands, I would have walked away from the deal just to show him that words have consequences.

 

[Sail4beer]

Flew up from Florida to sail short handed in a regatta in Long Island with an ex-Brit named Ken and his ugly daughter back in ‘98. They sailed along and trashed the Irish for a few races before I let them know that I’m a dual citizen of the US and Ireland, born and raised in the US. Never even been to Ireland.
 

They didn’t sail well before that and sailed even worse afterwards. You could see the hate in their eyes. 
Me, I tried to get the boat moving faster so I could get them off the course and back for tea and crumpets.
 

They chose to not sail the next day and I was picked up by another boat and we won the regatta. I enjoyed listening to how much better they were than the dumb Irish. They don’t know that Sir Paul McCartney is a mick and so is the entire inbred monarchy. They even looked like pub crawling micks, just with bad teeth...

 

[billy backstay]

All the time!  Do you have any friends that have different political views?  It's called democracy.

This!! I have good friends who, I can call Trumptard's to their face.  We just don't talk much about politics.

 

[kent_island_sailor]

Sure within limits. There probably is a breaking point of racism and sexism I could not be around, but in your situation I would delete my Facebook account ASAP, not be exposed to their online crap, and enjoy the sail.

* I swear Facebook is probably the worst possible thing that has ever happened to interpersonal relationships

 

[kent_island_sailor]

Flew up from Florida to sail short handed in a regatta in Long Island with an ex-Brit named Ken and his ugly daughter back in ‘98. They sailed along and trashed the Irish for a few races before I let them know that I’m a dual citizen of the US and Ireland, born and raised in the US. Never even been to Ireland.
 

They didn’t sail well before that and sailed even worse afterwards. You could see the hate in their eyes. 
Me, I tried to get the boat moving faster so I could get them off the course and back for tea and crumpets.
 

They chose to not sail the next day and I was picked up by another boat and we won the regatta. I enjoyed listening to how much better they were than the dumb Irish. They don’t know that Sir Paul McCartney is a mick and so is the entire inbred monarchy. They even looked like pub crawling micks, just with bad teeth...

Last I checked the royals changed their names so people would forget their German origins. Irish????

 

[Sail4beer]

That’s what I heard recently. If they have no sense of humor, then the German lineage might fit.

When I tell people that I’m of Irish decent, I’m often told I look like an Aryan. Probably because the Germanic tribes raped and pillaged Ireland before the Brits.

 

[kent_island_sailor]

Plenty of Viking DNA in Britain and Ireland.

 

[billy backstay]

Plenty of Viking DNA in Britain and Ireland.

This!!  Vikings were robbing, pillaging and raping for near on 500 years, I reckon.....

 

[kent_island_sailor]

Back to the OP - it wasn't that long ago this wouldn't have ever crossed anyone's mind. Sad to see where we have got to

 

[jack_sparrow]

As long as he provides really cool crew gear who cares what his political views are...nothing can go wrong surely??

 

[kent_island_sailor]

That was real, wasn't it? They really did the 1930s era uniform designs I think.

 

[Santanasailor]

Sailing is Sailing.  Arguing is arguing.  The two do not mix.  When they come together, very bad things happen.  People get hurt and not with fists or even words.  

Politics is not an issue, when one can discuss the issues of the day as civil men and women.  I have many friends who strongly disagree with my politics but we can discuss the issues, even joke about the issues with never a cross word between us.  

Those who cannot tolerate the opposite view are perhaps the most serious issue of our nation today.  It is an issue that needs discussion, an issue that needs resolution.  Resolution NOT by forcing one’s beliefs on another.  

Yes I would gladly sail with someone who has different ideas, but I cannot and will not tolerate another who forces his thoughts or makes sport of the other’s thoughts on how the country should be run.  

My family has fought in every major war since 1941 excepting the first Gulf War.  Our families have lived on this continent since well before the civil war, on both sides of the Mason Dixon line.  We have earned the right to express our thoughts and beliefs.  We have not earned the right to Force other fellow citizens of our nation to believe as we do.  

 

[jack_sparrow]

This!!  Vikings were robbing, pillaging and raping for near on 500 years, I reckon.....

Plenty of Viking DNA in Britain and Ireland.

500 years might be a stretch...they literally made themselves extinct by very quickly assimilating with people those places they landed from eastern Mediterranean (arriving from the north) to British Isles. Lots of Viking DNA in Turkey for instance.

 

[hasher]

Little don has policy all wrong.  Yet, the tribe still supports their boy.

It is easy to stick a hole in their rhetoric if you introduce facts to the conversation.

Then we can move on to argue about football and other such important subjects.

 

[jack_sparrow]

That was real, wasn't it? They really did the 1930s era uniform designs I think.

Yep and after the war changed over from uniforms to men's suits.

 

[Santanasailor]

Then we can move on to argue about football and other such important subjects.

Football!  There’s no football, there’s only LSU FOOTBALL.  (All others are losers) at least this year!  

GO TIGERS 

(and LA Tech won their bowl game as well, GO DOGS!).

 

[hasher]

Football!  There’s no football, there’s only LSU FOOTBALL.  (All others are losers) at least this year!  

GO TIGERS 

(and LA Tech won their bowl game as well, GO DOGS!). 

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