Not every place where people discuss "politics" has to be a place for political battles. People get into arguments and fights over football, for heaven's sake.

Not every place where people discuss "politics" has to be a place for political battles. People get into arguments and fights over football, for heaven's sake. Should we ban that, too? I and my friends regularly discuss politics (on Discord, of all places) and we all have different viewpoints- everything from classical liberal to Bernie Sanders-socialist to conservative to libertarian and we all manage to get along- it's hard sometimes, and there are heated discussions, but we all leave having a good time, and, more importantly, we've learned something. The way I see it, the problem here is that as political polarization increases, the need for frank discussion without hating people afterwards only increases, and the tolerance for it only goes down. If we want to recover even a little bit from the edge, stuff like Google's "no discussing politics" policy needs to be stopped, and replaced with "discuss politics politely or not at all" instead.