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Finally, a sane voice! It's time that we realized that many things are simply not political in nature, no matter what social justice demagogues want to tell us.
by legerdemain 6y ago
Finally, a sane voice! It's time that we realized that many things are simply not political in nature, no matter what social justice demagogues want to tell us. Selling customer data to advertisers is economic, not political. Resisting being forced to classify independent business partners as "employees" is economic, not political. The ethnicity, race, and gender of your applicant pool is economic, not political.
Politics has to do with generation-defining issues of our time, like choosing a more rational voting system at the national level and building broad support for a sensible third party that genuinely represents the interests of voters like myself, who are poorly served by the trifling squabbles of the current political "establishment." All this other stuff that certain biased parties want to paint as "political" is just the natural outcome of well-understood deterministic processes of economic self-interest, nothing more and nothing less. No use whining about cold, hard reality!!
- emptyparadise 6y agoWhat's "politics" anyway? I think we need to be very careful here. Economic problems can be caused by nasty politics and vice versa. It can be very easy to fall into the trap of saying "well, that's just how economics work, sorry!" while ignoring the underlying political causes of why entire groups of people found themselves barely able to feed their families. At the same time, politics are an unavoidable fact of life for a lot of people. It's hardly fair to tell somebody to just get away from political topics when it's their rights and liberties being debated on C-SPAN.
- jeanjogr 6y agoYou seem to argue that politics is whatever issues where you support change and "not politics" is whatever issues where you support the status quo. It is quite hard to not see your examples as political _but_ you don't want any of the changes currently being advocated by leftist activists. > Selling customer data to advertisers is economic, not political If selling customer data was forbidden, then it would not be a natural outcome of well-understood deterministic processes of economic self-interest. It seems the "natural outcome" is wholly dependent on current laws.
- pell 6y agoHow are these examples not political? Yes, the entities in question might not do them for political reasons (as in for or because some kind of affiliation) but the issues are absolutely political.