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Re:Red Light Green Light by jyrkesh on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @03:18AM (#30159890)
I didn't know this was a thing that had a term either! I don't talk politics anymore except with folks that I explicitly know want to talk politics, but I frequently suggest that people shouldn't use a whole litany of terms in those discussions: right/left-wing, capitalist, socialist, liberal, conservative, communist, libertarian, fascist...so many people use these terms as short-hand for "stuff I really/don't like", and then project values and policies onto them.

Throw them out, talk about the issues, talk about your shared values, etc, and you'll quickly find that you agree with people a lot more than you realized.

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Re:Red Light Green Light by Buttons840 on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:14AM (#30163548)
I didn't want to mention politics, but "Critical Race Theory" is a prime example and should really be tabooed as a temporary exercise to aid understanding. So many discussions about it without people having a consistent understanding of what it means. I think they've even written laws regarding it without defining what it means. But, sadly, politics is rarely about understanding each other or reaching consensus.
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Re:Red Light Green Light by themarlzy on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:17PM (#30169430)
> But, sadly, politics is rarely about understanding each other or reaching consensus

This made a recollection (possibly a lucid dream) about a country who has replaced an (implicit or explicit) adversarial system with one that starts by getting the parties to co-author a document on what they agree upon.

I think this is what our politics (organisational and the representative system alike) should try to implement

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Re:Red Light Green Light by mcv on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:56AM (#30160527)
Totally agree. Many of these terms mean totally different things to different people. And sometimes contradictory things to the same person. Get rid of the labels and talk issues instead.

And I guess the same is true in the examples of tech discussions where people couldn't agree because "scaling" or "performance" meant different things to different people, because by the nature of their work, they focus on different issues.

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