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No, it is not. Politics apathy is present across all races, all classes, all genders. Those who are politically possessed like to claim that “everything is pol
by dlivingston 6y ago
No, it is not. Politics apathy is present across all races, all classes, all genders.
Those who are politically possessed like to claim that “everything is politics” and that “it’s a privilege to not care about politics”, but every Hispanic and Filipino immigrant I’ve known (which is not a negligible number) care about family, hard work, and stability: not politics.
- throwaway4715 6y agoHow does one ensure "stability" without getting involved in politics?
- jimmygrapes 6y agoPossibly by observing the actual changes implemented and interpreting them in their own context (i.e. IRS changes tax forms, but all the numbers stay the same when filling it out). Not being convinced that their fundamental right to attempt existence is threatened by imaginary what-ifs.
- username90 6y agoGetting involved in politics makes your life more unstable, which is why mostly privileged people engage in it. For example extremely few people from below median homes are politically active in USA, while home owners are among the most active. Ergo people are mostly politically active to defend their privileges and not to fix injustices. I'm not sure how anyone can think that being politically active would make your life more stable. Edit: An example of this is that black people are much less likely to vote than white people. Is this because black people support the status quo while white people want to change things? No, it is because black people don't have the time and energy to spare to vote. And no, this isn't about voting disenfranchisement, black people are less likely to vote even in very blue states.
- tshaddox 6y agoOne way might be to stigmatize or ban discussion of politics.
- war1025 6y agoTo quote a recent Tyler Childers song[1], by "tucking our tails as we try to abide" Stability isn't about dominance, stability is about being uninteresting enough not to get your teeth kicked in. [1] https://genius.com/Tyler-childers-long-violent-history-lyrics https://genius.com/Tyler-childers-long-violent-history-lyric...
- lazyasciiart 6y agoI'm not sure why an opinion being commonly held across race/class/gender would make it not political. Your statement that the immigrants you know care about x and y and not politics doesn't actually make sense in response to the concept 'everything is political'. You are responding from the perspective that politics means elections, or some similarly narrow set of topics. But 'everything is political' explicitly rejects that perspective. It means that a Filipino immigrant thinking about whether their uncle and cousins will be able to visit them is political because it's harder for them to get a visa than my English cousins. It means that a Hispanic immigrant talking to her friend in a restaurant after dropping the kids at school should not risk being detained by ICE because speaking Spanish makes some dropkick immigration officer decide they must be illegal immigrants, which happened in Montana.
- colinmhayes 6y agoI don't see how this refutes anything. Plenty of people from all races, classes, and genders make the political decision to avoid politics.