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The most typical reason people don't like to answer that question is because they believe it is as setup for a followup: "Then why aren't you doing X?!" where
by notSupplied 5y ago
The most typical reason people don't like to answer that question is because they believe it is as setup for a followup:
"Then why aren't you doing X?!" where X in this case could be "Fire this person", "Setup a committee overseeing all hires", "Commit to quotas", "Donate money to this cause."
Also reminds me of this "Yes Prime Minister" skit about leading questions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
- notSupplied 5y agoActually, an even more obvious reason that I missed: Politics have become so tribal, that even simple sentences no longer mean what they mean at face value. Instead, they more often signal membership in a group who holds a certain bundle of beliefs. Do you think human lives matter...as in...all of them? Do you think men should have basic rights...as in...mens rights? Did you cringe a little at the last few words of those sentences? Even though at face value, they are very agreeable sentences? I think similarly, middle/right leaning people who aren't actually racist, think that parroting a political phrase on demand at work, is signaling a bunch of other "bundled ideologies" that they don't want to be a part of.