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Some might say that you and your friends' ability to sit on the sidelines is a form of privilege not available to everyone. Along with this idea that in the pas
by anon84873628 4y ago
Some might say that you and your friends' ability to sit on the sidelines is a form of privilege not available to everyone. Along with this idea that in the past, politics was more polite, or less bothersome or whatever.
Maybe for some people, participating in politics has been a matter of life and death - something they don't have the luxury to ignore.
- systemvoltage 4y agoTrue, it is the sign of bad times. Deglobalization is going to cause more hurt. I expect a rough ride for next decade or two until we come to our senses.
- kansface 4y agoThis is a terrible argument - a secular Pascal’s mugging, conveniently invoked to force everyone and everything into politics; a currently un-ironic “think of the children”! It is not healthy for our society to demand that 100% of things be politicized - to claim that not politicizing stuff is immoral because some issues are profoundly impactful for some people! I want the good, the equitable, the right, the just and far, far less of the political! Politics deserves the deference due politics in any particular situation - not that derived from catastrophizing the most extreme outcome and then universalizing it into the quotidian! | Some might say that you and your friends' ability to sit on the sidelines is a form of privilege not available to everyone. I say the ability and demand to turn everything into politics and require the same of everyone else is itself a form of privilege!
- a_shovel 4y agoJeez, save some exclamation marks for the rest of us. If what other people want is bad, inequitable, wrong, or unjust, then wanting the good, the equitable, the right and the just is politics itself.