Cupcake2006 posted...The problem is, people here will probably get modded for even just posting about the campus protests. Not giving opinions or anything. Just "hey, this is happening."
Let's be honest, though - literally
no one is going to
just post "hey, this is happening" without adding their own snide take on it. Which is where the political part comes in.
Like it or not, realize it or not, accept it or not, pretty much everyone adds their own biases when discussing current events. Even choosing which stories to mention and which to ignore (let alone which news sites you choose to link to) is playing into bias.
Most current events discussion (both on this site and in general) always devolves into stupidity. And there's no real reason for it to be here in the first place.
Video games news? Sure. Pop culture news at a stretch, maybe. But global events and outright political discussion, no.
And none of this is helped by the number of people making "ha ha gotcha" topics alluding to political stuff as a protest against being told they can't talk about political stuff, because Internet activism in general is about on par with a 12-year old throwing a tantrum because they don't want to eat their vegetables. Which does very little to prove that people here are mature enough to be discussing complex socio-political issues in the first place.
(And aside from all that, let's not pretend the protests
specifically aren't inherently political in and of themselves - even just mentioning them
is politicizing the discussion. Because their entire existence is political.)
AltOmega2 posted...I'm actually fine with the no politics rule. No one in the year 2024 has ever had their mind changed arguing politics on the Internet.
"Political discussion on the Internet is like watching a playground full of kindergarteners talk about nuclear physics - no one involved has any clue what the hell they're talking about, and it probably ends with a lot of insults and people flinging poop at each other."