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Finally, it seems it was a pretty widely accepted idea in society for many years that in general you don't discuss religion or politics in public nothing good w

Finally, it seems it was a pretty widely accepted idea in society for many years that in general you don't discuss religion or politics in public nothing good would come from it and it would cause hurt feelings all around. In the lat 2000's a bunch of companies wanted to make themselves seem "different" and "hip" and "new" from the stodgy old megacorps so they brought in foosball tables they told people to bring their dogs, and started taking political positions. It turns out that the reason many previous generations didn't talk about politics and religion in public wasn't because they were stodgy old people that hated progress and were soulless greed bags, it's because it largely seems to engender hurt feelings, foster conflict, increase dysfunction and inhibit effectively allowing people to operate in a professional environment. It seems that my whole generation is not just intent on reinventing everything that society already had with a tech prefix, but they are also intent on relearning the hard way the lessons many earlier generations learned and had passed on.

ivraatiems 4y ago
Part of the issue, though, is that the political problems we're dealing with right now are a lot more foundational, and the places we talk about them have become more integrated. It's easy to not talk about the politics of women in the workplace if you're all white advertising executives - who cares? Or to not talk about religion if it's implicit that everybody in your town is Methodist, and goes to the one Methodist church there. That's just no longer the case in most places. Even in those small towns, the Internet exists, and people can choose beliefs other than the ones they're raised with. It's not that we don't need to learn to get along with people who believe things that are different than what we believe, it's that our beliefs are so much more different now than we thought, and so much more visible.
- Fatnino 4y ago
  As a member of a locally minority religion I NEVER bring it up at work and I always quickly direct the conversation into the nearest dead end if someone else brings it up. It's easy not to talk about religion at work even when the population is not homogeneous. The few people who will insist on bringing it up generally give me the impression that they are trying to convince me that I'm wrong and should get on the majority religion bandwagon. This behavior is disgusting anywhere, let alone in a professional setting.

ivraatiems 4y ago

Part of the issue, though, is that the political problems we're dealing with right now are a lot more foundational, and the places we talk about them have become more integrated. It's easy to not talk about the politics of women in the workplace if you're all white advertising executives - who cares? Or to not talk about religion if it's implicit that everybody in your town is Methodist, and goes to the one Methodist church there. That's just no longer the case in most places. Even in those small towns, the Internet exists, and people can choose beliefs other than the ones they're raised with. It's not that we don't need to learn to get along with people who believe things that are different than what we believe, it's that our beliefs are so much more different now than we thought, and so much more visible.

Fatnino 4y ago
As a member of a locally minority religion I NEVER bring it up at work and I always quickly direct the conversation into the nearest dead end if someone else brings it up. It's easy not to talk about religion at work even when the population is not homogeneous. The few people who will insist on bringing it up generally give me the impression that they are trying to convince me that I'm wrong and should get on the majority religion bandwagon. This behavior is disgusting anywhere, let alone in a professional setting.