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Liberals don't just hate President Trump; lots of them don't even like the idea of being in the company of his supporters.

That's the big takeaway from a new Pew Research Center survey, which is just the latest indicator of our remarkably tribal and partisan politics. And when it comes to Trump, it's difficult to overstate just how tribal the left is and how much distaste he engenders. Indeed, that distaste apparently extends even to people who decided they would like to vote for Trump.

The poll shows almost half of liberal Democrats 47 percent say that if a friend supported Trump, it would actually puta strain on their friendship. Among Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters more broadly, the number is 35 percent. White and more-educated Democrats are more likely to feel that it's tough to even be friends with a Trump supporter.

And while partisanship and tribalism are pretty bipartisan things in American politics today, Democrats are actually substantially less able to countenance friends who supported the wrong candidate: Just 13 percent of Republicans say a friend's support of Hillary Clinton would strain their relationship.

Part of the reason for the imbalance is likely that liberals tend to live in more homogeneous places and don't even associate with conservatives. Another Pew study last year showed a whopping 47 percent of people who planned to vote for Clinton didn't have any close friends who were Trump supporters. By contrast, 31 percent of Trump supporters said they didn't have any friends who backed Clinton.

Because of the way our population is sorted, with liberals clustered in urban areas and Republicans more spread out, Democrats tend to be more insulated from dissenting political voices. So perhaps it's no surprise that they don't hear and don'twantto hear those voices coming from their friends' mouths.

The prevalent belief on the left that Trump isn't just a bad president or person, but is also racist, xenophobic and misogynistic is undoubtedly at play here too. And at one point during the 2016 presidential campaign, Clinton even suggested half of Trump's supporters were deplorables who were also racist or xenophobic or misogynistic. (Her campaign later clarified that she meant only people at Trump's rallies. But still.)

Despite that, it's noteworthy just how many people think supporting the nominee of a major American political party reflects poorly upon the people they know. Fully 46 percent of Americans who voted for president chose Trump, and that isn't really an acceptable position for a friend to take for half of liberal Democrats.

One final data point from the new Pew study: 68 per cent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters say they find it stressful and frustrating to talk to people who have a different opinion of Trump. About half 52 percent of Republican and GOP-leaning voters say the same.

When people ask why politicians in Washington can't get along, this is why: Americans can't even talk to each otherabout politics anymore without getting flustered.

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Almost half of liberal-leaning Democrats said that a friendship would be strained if they found out their friend had voted for President Trump, a new Pew Research Center poll found.

The survey, released Thursday, found that 47 percent of liberal Democrats said their relationships would be strained if they found out a friend backed Trump.

Fifty-nine percent of Americans said it is stressful and frustrating to talk with those who have a different opinion about Trump. Nearly 70 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters said so, while52 percent ofRepublicans and Republican-leaning respondents agreed.

Voting for Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. adds to legal team ahead of Senate meeting Trump: Democrats, Russians laughing at 'phony Russian Witch Hunt' Scaramucci makes Sunday shows debut with vow to stop WH leaks MORE was far less likely to impact a friendship, with just 13 percent of Republicans saying that a friend voting for the former Democratic presidential candidate would strain their friendship.

The Pew Research poll surveyed 2,505 American adults by phone from June 27 through July 9, and has a margin of error of 2.2 percent.

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Canadas Liberal government has removed condemnation of barbaric cultural practices like Muslim honor killings and female genital mutilation from the study guide used to complete the Canadian citizenship exam.

The Canadian Press has obtained a copy of the soon-to-be-released guide and noted extensive revisions.

Theres also a new chapter on the evolution of LGBTQ rights in Canada and a section on how the country has historically discriminated against everyone from Japanese-Canadians to disabled Canadians.

The reference to getting a job as an obligation of Canadian citizenship has also been excised. The previous Conservative government reworked the document in 2011 when Jason Kenney was immigration minister

Kenney, who has since left the federal scene to lead the Alberta Conservative party, included large portions of Canadian military history that emphasized the countrys contributions to major wars and not just to peacekeeping as Liberal governments have tended to focus on. The passage that reminded potential citizens that female mutilation and honor killings are a crime in Canada was criticized by some because they felt it was anti-Muslim.

The new Liberal citizenship guide offers a different set of expectations in tune with the partys ideological positions: mandatory obligations for potential Canadian citizens now include respecting Indigenous Peoples and treaties negotiated with native bands, paying income tax and completing all of the questions asked on the federal census.

The section that describes how Canada embraces the rights of LGBTQ groups was first proposed by government bureaucrats in the previous Conservative government but Kenney specifically overruled them, opting instead for one reference to same-sex marriage being legal in Canada.

Former Liberal Immigration Minister John McCallum said redesigning the study guide was a top priority when he assumed the office in 2015. While redacting references to female genital mutilation, the War of 1812 and working for a living, the new document also divides a citizens responsibilities between voluntary and mandatory obligations.

Voting, speaking both official languages, and upholding the human rights of others are voluntary responsibilities; obedience to the law, jury duty, filing income taxes. and respecting Indigenous treaties are mandatory.

Today, Canadians, for example, can own their own homes and buy land thanks to treaties that the government negotiated, the draft document suggests. Every Canadian has responsibilities under those treaties as well. They are agreements of honor.

The guide doesnt ignore one of Prime Miniser Justin Trudeaus favorite expressions: Canada has learned how to be strong not in spite of our differences, but because of them. The slightly altered phrase can be found in the introduction.

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Written by Johnson TA | Bengaluru | Published:July 24, 2017 3:04 am Social Reformer Martin Luthar King III, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah with others during the inauguration of the Dr B R Ambedkar International Conference 2017 in Bengaluru on Friday. (Source: PTI/Shailendra Bhojak)

Indian liberals of the past, including Dr B R Ambedkar, did not foresee the threat posed to individual freedoms by authoritarian exercise of state power, according to Rochana Bajpai, political researcher and founder member of the Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice, at SOAS University of London.

At a three-day international conference on Dr B R Ambedkar organised by Karnataka government, Bajpai, author of Debating Difference: Group Rights and Liberal Democracy in India, said Ambedkars contribution to liberal thought and minority politics is not as well-known as his influence on social justice and the Constitution. While classic liberals believe state power poses great threat to individual freedoms, Indian liberals of the past, nationalist or otherwise, were more concerned with the thinking that unless the state is bound to act and unless it is empowered to act, liberal ends would not be achieved and individuals would be trapped in oppressive traditions, she said.

What he and other Indian liberals did not see enough is the threat to individual freedoms itself that was posed by the authoritarian exercise of state power. The ways in which freedom of expression, freedom of dissent, freedom of lifestyle and values conflicts that are with us today, can be threatened by unchecked state power. Indian liberalism is yet to evolve reformative and institutional resources which protect the individual against an authoritarian type of state power, she said.

Ambedkars work expands the scope of liberal thinking beyond nationalist liberals like Ram Mohan Roy, Ranade and Phule in important respects, she said. Ambedkars emphasis on equal dignity provided an ideological grounding for human rights. This is something we do not see in the strands of nationalist liberalism and colonial liberalism that was seen before Babasaheb, she said.

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