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That it's being framed as politics is way off the mark. What's being discussed at the workplace isn't foreign policy; it's authoritarianism vs democracy. That's
by andrethegiant 6y ago
That it's being framed as politics is way off the mark. What's being discussed at the workplace isn't foreign policy; it's authoritarianism vs democracy. That's an existential threat. People are getting executed in the street by those supposed to serve and protect, and business leaders want employees to "just be apolitical"? Asking employees to ignore an existential threat is like asking humans to not experience emotion, to the tune of "Just ignore the chaos around you and do your job, peasant." It's wrong to enforce people to ignore the injustices that affect them.
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- dragonwriter 6y ago> That it's being framed as politics is way off the mark No, it's not, at all. > What's being discussed at the workplace isn't foreign policy Well, I mean, it often is, but clearly that's not what you are centrally focussed on. > it's authoritarianism vs democracy That's still politics even when it isn't foreign policy, but it's not a mutually exclusive category with foreign policy. > People are getting executed in the street by those supposed to serve and protect Domestic racial and political repression is, very much, politics. As is asking people to shut up about it. > Asking employees to ignore an existential threat is like asking humans to not experience emotion, No, it's asking workers to not act out on their emotion and behave as the industrial tools and consumables (“human resources”) which is their use in capitalism.