Re:“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts t...
by deanCommie on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:38PM
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Politics isn't about racism.
Politics isn't ONLY about racism.
Politics isn't ONLY about NOT racism.
If you ban politics, you also ban politics about racism.
But if politics was about whether the city should spend a budget surplus on a sidewalk upgrade or a new park bench, then nobody would even think about banning those discussions.
So when you ban politics, you ban politics about racism. Because those are the controversial ones.
And less abstractly, more concretely, about the basecamp situation, the politics that led to this ban were explicitly politics about racism.
Politics isn't ONLY about racism.
Politics isn't ONLY about NOT racism.
If you ban politics, you also ban politics about racism.
But if politics was about whether the city should spend a budget surplus on a sidewalk upgrade or a new park bench, then nobody would even think about banning those discussions.
So when you ban politics, you ban politics about racism. Because those are the controversial ones.
And less abstractly, more concretely, about the basecamp situation, the politics that led to this ban were explicitly politics about racism.