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Pushing for an ‘apolitical’ workplace is immoral (and unrealistic)
- daenz 5y agoThey describe not being able to talk openly about political topics anymore as "staying in the shadows." This is so extraordinarily tone deaf to all the people that have to bite their tongues off while their coworkers rant openly about politics.
- defaultprimate 5y agoRemind me again which political leaning is so quick to cancel those that voice their honest values and convictions?
- agentdrtran 5y agoConservatives are the only ones to have passed laws explicitly to silence political enemies so I'm assuming you mean them
- defaultprimate 5y agoYou don't need laws when all the most powerful and prolific information dispensation institutions that have ever existed function as the enforcement wing of one party behaving as the politburo
- goodpoint 5y agoAuthoritarians: that's the whole point. Nazism in Germany, fascism in Italy, Franco in Spain, Soviet Russia and the list goes on.
- zozbot234 5y agoNo problem pushing for a 'political' workplace, but then you have to push for genuine political values as well - stuff like conciliation, adaptability, humor, compromise, intellectual variety and diversity. Authoritarian ideology is not politics, it's the utter denial of politics.
- thinkingemote 5y agoOne of the most encouraging parts of the new tech unions is the parts that speak up about morality. It's also the part which will be sacrificed first for other things like workers wages or hiring changes, but its nice that they see that people think that morality of a workplace should be something that's important in its own right.
- h2odragon 5y agoIt's often OK to disagree. The vocal Socialist and I entertained our office sometimes with frothing rants at lunchtime, with the explicit prior agreement that we agreed to disagree and there was no convincing the idjits that believed the other side's arguments. He was a good guy, good cow orker and an entertaining debater. The fact that we could shout at each other made the rare work disagreements shorter and far less meaningful, stuff didn't stew and ego issues were open and visible for what they were. Why must agreement be total? Why can't we work beside someone with a different view, especially when what we're doing is something we agree on? Does an office need to consist of only fans of $Sports_Team? Should they have mandatory pep rallies? Contrawise, is there any harm if some folks want to have an office Superbowl party? Is your office's political stance of any more consequence than their stance on a given sport?
- Proven 5y agoFirst, if you're not the owner you are in no position to push for anything. Second, if you can't help it, set up your own shop.