You ever wonder why "politics at work" has flared up so much in the last 4 years? Have you completely lost sight of the timeline of events, or do you refuse to acknowledge it?

Do you think it's a reaction to something? Or did it just spontaneously instigate itself one day? Just uppity libs getting bored?

People are speaking up because people feel existentially threatened. Because people are being existentially threatened. This threat permeates peoples' lives. It doesn't get left at home when they "go" to the office. Asking them to turn it off at work is asking them to TURN IT OFF. And now we're in gaslighting territory.

DARVO. You know it?

We're in the phase now where the person under threat is the problem, the victim is being attacked for speaking up.

Extinguishing politics at work is not some "rational man" exercise. "I just want to be free to ply my trade, dude." It's asking people to pause their very real own pain. It's asking them to deny it, deny its effects; to pretend it's not real. To think they're the problem, not the person who's threatened.

This has never been about "ooh, should we, or should we not, discuss supply-side economics at work?" Broad segments of the population are under threat. That's not politics. That's just violence. Asking them to switch it off at work is just perpetuating and enabling the violence.

> We're in the phase now where the person under threat is the problem, the victim is being attacked for speaking up.

Yes; the victim is being attacked by activist coworkers for admitting that they don't agree with attacking people for admitting they they don't agree with things.

But that’s just the thing. Whether you feel like you’re being attacked or not is irrelevant. It’s not something your coworkers or company should have to deal with, so long as the attacks are not instigated in the workplace.

And I strongly disagree that most people arguing politics at work feel “existentially threatened.” No, most people that argue politics at work do it because it is a topic that is interesting and quick to generate vigorous (counterproductive) discussion (and division).

>You ever wonder why "politics at work" has flared up so much in the last 4 years? Have you completely lost sight of the timeline of events, or do you refuse to acknowledge it?

No, please, fill me in. What has changed in the last 4 years that has suddenly made people existentially threatened at work? It sounds like you're trying to implicate 'Donald Trump' as the start of all of these issues, and yet I'm not sure how the 2016 US election matters for me, in my country.

Accusing people who want to only do their job at work as "violent"? Your comment is a perfect demonstration of why apolitical work environments will be appealing to a lot of people.

Never said the workplace was threatening. I said people are being threatened at-large, and what you call "politics" is them responding to that threat, and it's harmful to the victim of such violence to suppress their ability to discuss it, in any environment, including work.

Now, please answer my question. Why do YOU think "politics at work" has flared up so much in the last 4 years?