Tairy Greene
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Jeez give it a rest already.It's an issue that is incredibly deeply personal to people on both sides.
At least those experiences with your grandmother and mother could tangibly demonstrate to you that many people who voted no did so without malice and with the genuine conviction they were doing so for the right reasons.
It can be enormously difficult not to put people with fundamentally different beliefs than your own into a box. Especially when the worst excesses of each side are on such vivid public display.
It's hard to understand sometimes that the exact same words that say equality and fairness to us say isolation and division to them.
There is still a long way to do on so many fronts. But in a time when our social media bubbles are causing the poles to accelerate away from each other at breakneck speed, a little empathy for those on the other side is not a bad thing.