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Politics isn't about racism. Politics isn't ONLY about racism. Politics isn't ONLY about NOT racism. If you ban politics, you also ban politics about racism.
by deanCommie 5y ago
Politics isn't about racism.
Politics isn't ONLY about racism.
Politics isn't ONLY about NOT racism.
If you ban politics, you also ban politics about racism.
But if politics was about whether the city should spend a budget surplus on a sidewalk upgrade or a new park bench, then nobody would even think about banning those discussions.
So when you ban politics, you ban politics about racism. Because those are the controversial ones.
And less abstractly, more concretely, about the basecamp situation, the politics that led to this ban were explicitly politics about racism.
- bumbastique 5y agoToo much of politics is about racism and similar identarian issues these days, at the expense of more fundamental topics. For example, BLM should really have been about police brutality and police abuse in general. It's not just black people who get regularly shit on by the cops. But by making it all about race, the more general point is missed and no progress is made. Another example, you get Biden paying lip service to trans rights, but nothing about introducing Medicare For All - which would actually make things better for everyone, including those with gender dysphoria who require access to healthcare professionals. Of course, people who see all the country's problems through an identity politics lens don't like it when you point out things like this.
- wl 5y agoGun control. Abortion. Climate change. Drugs. The death penalty. Racism isn't the only controversial political topic out there.