Re:Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week (2016)
by antonvs on Sunday January 17, 2021 @02:49PM
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So you "knew all of that already," but decided "no politics for one week" during one of the most politically charged periods of our time was a good idea?
I'm sorry, I don't care enough about your community values not to laugh at that.
Besides, this idea of the value of civility in the face of much worse issues is the worst kind of enlightened centrism. You're quite right that "not to have to deal with politics is just privilege," but it's clearly a lesson you haven't learned.
> Rather than being snarky, why don't you share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn? I mean that quite sincerely.
If you could explain how you reconcile everything you quoted about politics with the ban on politics, I could perhaps help you understand. I can't really grasp what it is you don't understand.
If you mean something like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25786476, or "everything is political", or "not to have to deal with politics is just privilege", or "being apolitical is just being political in favor of the status quo", we knew all of that already. But of course there are degrees of experience.