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I don't know why people are so terrified of politics.
by roflyear 3y ago
I don't know why people are so terrified of politics.
- Slow_Hand 3y agoI’ll venture a guess. Mainstream politics (in America at least) has become something of a spectator sport that leads to unproductive, irritating, and dysfunctionally polarizing behavior.
- roflyear 3y agoI don't think it'll get better by NOT talking about it.
- zogrodea 3y agoSure, polarisation may exist elsewhere, but does that mean we have to bring it here too by talking about it? (Because the users on HN are subject to the same tendencies as everyone else, and almost invariably the kind of conversations that polarise elsewhere will polarise people here too.)
- tptacek 3y agoIt is absolutely not part of HN's charter to make US politics (or the politics of any country!) better. That's a project worth undertaking, but there are better places for it.
- roflyear 3y agoIt isn't a part of HN's charter, but certainly the attitude "politics must be avoided" is not good.
- b59831 3y agoBecause activists can talk about nothing else. It's annoying, not terrifying
- em-bee 3y agoit's not the topic itself that is terrifying but the antagonistic mode of discussion. i have no problem discussing political opinions themselves, but i have no interest arguing about who these opinions belong to and which party is on which side of the debate or judging people or groups for having a particular opinion, or worse attacking them for it.
- xigoi 3y agoBecause I don't care about what happens in a completely different country.