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The idea that politics isn't conducive to a productive environment isn't strange. "Keep politics at home" is a phrase I've heard all my life. And it's advice th
by foiboitoi 11y ago
The idea that politics isn't conducive to a productive environment isn't strange. "Keep politics at home" is a phrase I've heard all my life. And it's advice that has deescalated many situations and got many non-productive time wasters back on track. I've been in (middle)management before, so I'm not just blowing smoke.
- icebraining 11y agoThe idea that politics isn't conducive to a productive environment isn't strange. No, just reactionary and hypocritical. You can't avoid politics, it's present in any social setting, and in any decision you make that affects others, particularly large groups of people (such as - Mozilla users). By shutting out debate, all you're doing is enforcing the political status quo.
- geofft 11y agoYeah, it's not uncommon for people who hold currently-centrist views to discourage dissent, to prefer de-escalating people's opinions, and to regard threats to their power and way of life as non-productive. All of those are way easier than defending currently-centrist views straightforwardly.
- foiboitoi 11y agoI'm not talking about government here. Sure fight the status quo of the government. I'm not applying centrist politics. It's neutralist, without left, right or center entering the equation. I know this never works when you're in HR, but it's not theoretical. Yes there are work environments that deserve abundant politics, rebellion & real resolutions. But most people aren't working in Vietnamese sweatshops or diamond mines in the C.A.R.
- icebraining 11y ago“There is nothing that is not political. Everything is politics.”
- foiboitoi 11y agoPolitics - Achieving and exercising positions of governance for organized control over a community. It may be in many places & affect many things but it does not encompass everything. Absolutists are always wrong eventually (no matter how satisfying the quote is).
- icebraining 11y agoThat's the narrow definition; I'm talking about the wider conception of politics.
- geofft 11y agoAnd being in a management position at a company doesn't strike you as organized control of a community?
- foiboitoi 11y agoThere's no point talking anymore given the fact they you two don't think apoliticism is even possible.