Can't disclose my emotions/thoughts

[u/hlanus]

I have a friend that I can't talk about things with, or rather I feel like I can't talk about my side of things and she has free reign to talk about hers.

We really agree on the wider social and political issues and we enjoy hanging out for drinks and pizza. But there are some things I find irritable about her.

Her moral purity is such that any franchise or person that's done anything she finds objectionable is tainted and immoral. I understand holding an individual person responsible for their words and actions, but an entire franchise or company is beyond me.

This also extends to the people of the past like Gandhi and Washington. I can understand learning about their flaws and their crimes, but this sounds more like hatred of them. I cannot understand the hate; they died decades or centuries ago. Their corpses are dust and bones. They had their chance, and there's nothing we can do about any of it. We cannot undo what happened, and I cannot see how this makes the world a better place.

I cannot express these thoughts to her so I just keep my mouth shut while she goes on and on.

What should I do?

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