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He shouldn't be bringing politics to work. And we shouldn't be bringing politics to HN.
by martythemaniak 6y ago
He shouldn't be bringing politics to work. And we shouldn't be bringing politics to HN.
- kome 6y agoyou can't avoid politics. you just can't. if you are avoiding politics, you are just blindly following some politics.
- drdeca 6y ago[Warning: the following comment of mine likely doesn't take the full context of the conversation into account, and much of what it says is likely not particularly applicable to the situation at hand.] Maybe one can't completely avoid politics, but there are reasonable senses in which the word "politics" is used, such that, in those senses, one can avoid politics to some non-negligible degree. If there is a discussion of one topic which people don't really tend to get upset about much, and then someone makes a big stretch to connect it to some other topic which has a lot of rather heated partisan controversy around it, the person who made the stretch to make the connection is doing the opposite of what might reasonably be called "avoiding politics". Not to say that anything like that happened in any of the relevant cases at hand, just to give an example that I think demonstrates why the concept of "avoiding politics in some sense to some degree" is a sensible concept.
- anotherevan 6y agoWhat about ethics? Can we bring ethics to work? And shouldn't we be bringing ethics to HN? If so, we have to acknowledge that politics and ethics is a Venn diagram with a lot of crossover.