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> Why does everything has to be put into the political view? BECAUSE THE FUTURE VIABILITY OF THE PLANET DEPENDS ON POLITICAL DECISIONS!
by bad_alloc 3y ago
> Why does everything has to be put into the political view?
BECAUSE THE FUTURE VIABILITY OF THE PLANET DEPENDS ON POLITICAL DECISIONS!
- notabee 3y agoIt's long past time we should stop tolerating the semantic evasion of "anything that I don't like to talk about is political and therefore out of bounds". The term itself has been stretched and mutilated to the point of absurdity, and especially any topic that has valid and exhaustive empirical research should be discussed in those terms and not shut down with a big taboo sticker slapped on it. Discussion of the state of the world's climate and humans' effects on it: science. Inventing a bunch of word games, truisms, nonsensical "decorum" rules about discussing factual evidence: political.
- mrguyorama 3y ago>"anything that I don't like to talk about is political and therefore out of bounds". What's funny is we did that exact experiment right here on HN several years ago and it went predictably tits up, since everything is political in some way, because politics TOUCHES EVERYTHING.