Guidelines for Co-Sharing a Living Space with Political Diversity

Orrin Konheim
3 min readOct 12, 2021

I have recently relocated to the Gulf Coast for Hurricane Ida relief and have been using housing. There has been a person on the space with far-left political opinions whereas I am more of a left-center person and it has led to a few clashes. I decided to draft a document and think it could be constructive. I changed the name of the people and organization as well

Suggested guidelines for existing in space that respects intellectual diversity

Many people are rightfully concerned about persecution on the basis of sexual orientation, race, and gender but there is also a need to ensure the desire to eradicate society of those evils is properly balanced with a respect for intellectual diversity.

I’ve found myself at the center of this often because I’ve faced exclusion for my beliefs that, for example, cancel culture being an existential threat to society, and have witnessed conservatives face worse pushback. At the same time, I’ve also had decreasing tolerance with the validity of the beliefs of Conservatives and have often confronted Trumpists with angry vitriol so I understand. Where to draw the line between protecting someone’s political beliefs is something that is not easy but I think it should be addressed considering I’m feeling some of that persecution here at Organization A

I’d like to suggest the following:

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Orrin Konheim

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