Need a politics-free safe space? It’s called “going for a walk”

  • Chaos@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    I deleted Reddit because those politics were too much Bs to handle, found myself in the same politics here as well x-x

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      2 years ago

      You see, if you are white, straight and male, the answer is usually a big difference. For everyone else? Likely very little.

      • spiderjuzce@lemmy.sdf.org
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        2 years ago

        I don’t know why people are down voting you when you’re right. Hell people are mad at you just for talking about it

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          2 years ago

          I mean I was mildly flippant. But I am a straight white guy, so you know, I’m not really punching up or down here?

          • o_d [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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            2 years ago

            It doesn’t matter what direction you’re punching here. You’re being called out because your analysis is wrong. Yes, politics in the west is certainly dominated by straight white males, but the important common trait that these people have is their class. Politics in most of the world is dominated by capital owners. Straight white males are afforded some concessions because it creates a divide among the working class. This does not mean that they are not oppressed due to their class character. Working class straight white males can and do suffer from some of the same oppression however, at a lower rate. This oppression is still unjustifiable.

  • TawnyFroggy [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    Need a politics-free safe space? It’s called stop supporting people who want me dead.

    Like I genuinely get mad when people say stuff like “I don’t want politics in my x” or whatever, because YEAH. ME FUCKING TOO. Do you know how much I would love not feeling on the defensive at all times due to the pending casual extermination of people like me that you are either supporting or ignoring??? If all the libs wanted me to be a lib like them they could have simply not made me life hell.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    I’m getting the impression from Lemmy that there’s an overrepresentation of the particular demographic of comfortable middle-aged bookish software engineers who live in the US or Canada.

  • Ignacio@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Need a politics-free safe space? It’s called “going for a walk”

    Unfortunately, walks don’t last forever. Another option is to delete your lemmy/kbin account, because everything in these places is politics or related to politics or turned into politics.

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        2 years ago

        Yes. After some self thinking about this topic, I realized that my concern is not about politics in general. My concern is about US politics and its big polarization, and about that fight between capitalism and communism. I wouldn’t mind politics focused on other countries or Europe, and without that polarization.