• @[email protected]
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    110 months ago

    american politeness requires that we not talk about politics in public and that encourages americans to ignore everything until it impacts them; broaching the subject will label you a malcontent.

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      010 months ago

      It’s considered impolite to espouse political views here in Australia.

      However, I’ve found that taking about issues rather than identities, with a modicum of diplomacy, is usually fine.

      I think this would be a lot more difficult in the US with the issues at hand because you’re not deciding mundane things like whether to subsidise roof top solar but rather, whether autocracy would make a nice change.

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        10 months ago

        You used an conservative American political dog whistle when you mentioned identity politics and you’re part of western hegemony as an Australian, so I would be a bad leftist if I let it be.

        It’s a dog whistle here because everyone has an identity that comes attached w perpetually unaddressed needs and the ruling class of people only considers their own identity to be the national discourse; establishing that other identities are little more than causes for division.

    • macniel
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      010 months ago

      american politeness requires that we not talk about politics

      Is that really a thing?

      • SuiXi3D
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        110 months ago

        In my experience, yes. Mainly because for as long as I’ve been alive, if you have a dissenting opinion people tend to get very heated.

      • Flying Squid
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        110 months ago

        People who talk about politics and religion at work tend to get hated at best and fired at worst.

        People who talk about politics and religion on social media risk getting lectures from relatives and losing friends.

        So yeah, people do not talk about politics and religion in America a lot of the time.

        Honestly, the only reason my mother-in-law and I have maintained a really good relationship over the decades is because we just don’t talk about religion or politics. My wife and I are pretty much on the opposite side of the map from her on both. So we just don’t talk about it rather than become enemies. Maybe that’s not the right way to go about things, but it’s saved a lot of stress where we don’t need it.

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          110 months ago

          we just don’t talk about it rather than become enemies.

          She surely won’t worry when they cart you and your wife off to Gitmo because you probably had it coming to you.