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How do you handle it when someone throws you under the bus, trying to get you to take sides in an argument or issue?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) September 21st, 2014

When someone is having a disagreement that you are not in but they say add your name here agrees you were [_blank, tell him/her”_ (directed at you). Even if you thought they were right, you did not care to be involved but now you have to comment on what you were alledged to believe or said. When someone throws you under the bus like that, what is your reaction or what do you do about it?

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RealEyesRealizeRealLies's avatar

The day I sport the robe and swing the gavel, is the day I will judge for you. Not before.

gailcalled's avatar

I don’t have to comment on anything I don’t feel like commenting on.

1) “Sorry, I am not going to comment on that.”

or,

2) “Let’s talk about something else.”

(allege)

zenzen's avatar

Throwing someone under the bus means something else. Look it up.

UnholyThirst's avatar

Latch onto the bus, pull yourself in the driver seat and turn it around.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

@zenzen Throwing someone under the bus means something else. Look it up.
Well….let’s see. A person is sacrificing your neutrality, peace and maybe reputation for their own selfish reasons, to be right and win the argument, or score points in the issue, seem to apply in actual practice here. I guess if you are such a sticker on dictionary meanings if someone told you a song was ”sick”, you would inform them music has no need of a doctor? (Thinking outside the box is permitted here ~~~)

Araphel's avatar

I’d fantasize about binding him/her with their own intestines, after I placed that individual in the path of the bus, they won’t digest that very well.

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