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This. I cannot understand why so many people here want to "ban politics" from the workplace. What are your working for at that workplace? Honest question. How
by jpdus 6y ago
This.
I cannot understand why so many people here want to "ban politics" from the workplace.
What are your working for at that workplace? Honest question. How to spend your hard-earned money when there is no society and market? Do you want your children to live in a peaceful, prospering world or a burning one (maybe with slightly more dollars in their account)?
I don't get this sentiment. Everything is politics nowadays and choosing to "ban" it just means egocentrically accepting that we are heading for a worse future.
(And no, "politics" doesnt mean that the company will become an echo chamber and different opinions should be silenced - the opposite is the case. But BS needs to be called out as what it is...)
- krapp 6y ago>This. I cannot understand why so many people here want to "ban politics" from the workplace. What 99% of people who want to "ban politics" from the workplace mean is that they want to ban progressive politics from the workplace, and more specifically any effect of progressive politics that would lead to negative consequences for their own politically incorrect behavior or views.
- john_moscow 6y agoOr, in other words, they don't want a non-elected group of activists decide what views are politically acceptable, and then have unrestricted power to punish those, whos views don't fit.
- krapp 6y agoA "non-elected group of activists" is just another term for "society," "deciding what views are politically acceptable" is exactly what both groups want to do (and by the way, no one elected the side that wants the "activists" to sit down and shut up either,) and no one involved has "unrestricted power to punish" anyone. But sure, spin it however you like.