ITT: Every shitty boss you ever had that would prefer you sever yourself from your thoughts, emotions, and personhood all for the sake of capitalism. The same folk who preach about the meritocracy but fall in line and flip their shit every time a trust fund baby in a suit visits.
I understand where you’re coming from, completely. It definitely feels like being silenced (again, because let’s face it, this shit is mentally throwing us right back into childhood when our needs and feelings were ignored). I understand that desperate feeling of needing to be heard. But we’re adults now, and the people at work aren’t your parents. There’s nothing obligating them to listen. Even my spouse needs time where I’m not ranting about politics. An hour a day is all he can do right now, and this is someone who cares about how I feel. But this isn’t a rejection of my feelings.
One thing I’ve personally had to realize is that the stuff about politics isn’t actually you. You have to find a way to have a degree of separation between the political and your actual core. I know it looks like they’re the same thing right now. But think about what you really want to accomplish, think about what kind of culture you want to create at work. Do you want everyone to be as upset as you are? Would that make a good working environment? If you want others to be more compassionate, I think coming from a place of compassion yourself might work better. Right now it sounds like you’re treating people in ways you probably wouldn’t want others treating you. You can still be true to yourself, your ideals, and values without being quite so forceful. For some reason beyond my immediate comprehension, demonstrating the intensity of your feelings doesn’t translate into people caring - it’s rather the opposite.
This was a really hard lesson for me and took a few weeks to fully understand and think through. I hope you have someone likeminded in your life you can talk to outside of work. If you don’t, please consider trying to find a new friend. You need someone who already understands, who you don’t need to convince, to blow off steam with. Good luck.
you clearly have no idea what ‘free speech’ means… and kinda sounds like you lack self control.
insufferable comes to mind, regardless of how good your intentions are
Insufferable is the bullshit we put up with everyday and are constantly told to say or do nothing about it.
You agreed to do a job for the means of production or a mission of some sort with a goal. Politics generally has nothing to do with that directly. This is why everyone else keeps the tradition of politics, religion, etc taboo in the workplace. It only slows down that goal and/or outright derails it. It’s not healthy or productive for the companies needs.
If you don’t like that, go open your own business and see if it thrives under your current views. Generally, they make the worst, most toxic businesses for people to work for.
Just everyone who has strong opinions about politics go start your own business or remove yourself from society. There problem solved.
“freedom of speech” means the government can’t arrest you for your views. It doesn’t mean the rest of us have to listen…
Your silence is deafening why should I have to tolerate it?
Freedom of speech means you won’t be legally prosecuted for what you say. Getting fired because you won’t stop talking about politics isn’t a free speech issue - it’s just a consequence of being insufferable to the point where no one wants to be around you. What’s the common denominator among all the people you’ve ran into this issue with? You are.
Know what’s insufferable. People who just sit about while authoritarians run a muck.
“We have to do something. Talking about politics constantly is something so therefor we need to constantly talk about politics”
How many minds have you actually changed? Looking at your responses here it seems like you’re just throwing stones.
If one hits thats 10 points.
Did the thought ever occur that you might be the problem?
That’s a lot for one man to bare but honestly, yes, I do this all the time, it’s called reflection.
Maybe try shutting up about politics? Work isn’t really the forum for that generally although it can depend on your relationship with your colleagues. If you want to talk politics try doing it with other people you have a closer relationship with, nobody owes you a forum for political discussion.
Work, the place you go to serve the coperate overlords, isn’t political? If the corporations don’t care about politics why is it so important to protect their speech in the form of money?
This whole manner of engaging in a discussion is just really annoying and most people probably won’t find it worth their time to engage with you, let alone people who just want to do their jobs. Maybe spend some time learning about how to engage with people productively or you’ll be in for a bad time whenever you step outside your echo chamber.
Sorry concern for someone other then you and your job annoys you.
Sorry people aren’t receptive to your mental jerk off sessions at work then I guess.
Oh, I’m jerking off now. Got it. All political speech is self serving, got it. You though. You’re a man of the people.
You can discuss politics, but the way you’re writing makes it sound like you’re preaching at your coworkers. People tend not to respond very well to being told how to think, even if you’re right. Perhaps you’re wasting your energy and risking your job when you could be organizing a club after work hours instead? If you really hate your bosses though, you have two choices: quit or organize a union (which might be right up your alley from how you’re talking)
I’m just asking for a culture change. We’ve let the racist make everything so toxic that having reasonable political positions isn’t possible anymore. Now things are hot and they want us all to hold the coals while keeping quiet. Just so I don’t offend racist bob over there.
Well sure, unless you want to pretend you’re achieving anything other than making yourself feel smarter by throwing around gotchas and completely failing to engage in any meaningful discussion. If you want to call it something else that’s ok but it seems based on your replies all you’re interested in doing is preaching to yourself to reinforce your own ideas.
When everyone sucks but you, it’s almost ALWAYS you that sucks.
This one’s clear as day.
Ok, but what about when everyone else sucks? Like I didn’t let an oligarch conman into the white house? Are you saying I’m just so shitty they put trump in place to spite me?
I guess you just owned the libs. Good job.
