If your an average Joe like me, there is no reason your identity should be extremely political.
I feel like you almost discovered the concept of privilege here.
If you consistently become emotional about political issues, you might need to take a step back and re-examine yourself.
But then kind of whiffed here.
Someone’s identity as a gay person or black person should not be “political” (whatever that means. Care to define it?). But it is.
Like, it was in living memory that black people had to sit in the back of the bus, and couldn’t buy property in certain places. Women couldn’t open checking accounts of their own until like 1974. Trans people are routinely subject to hate and danger.
Why do you think people are “regurgitating propaganda” rather than describing their experiences? Why is your baseline cool and normal and theirs is “led by the nose”?
And it’s extremely lossy to compress all of politics down to “sides”. There are details. People experience and believe things. It’s not just like rooting for a baseball team (though for some people it can be, admittedly).
I feel like you almost discovered the concept of privilege here.
But then kind of whiffed here.
Someone’s identity as a gay person or black person should not be “political” (whatever that means. Care to define it?). But it is.
Like, it was in living memory that black people had to sit in the back of the bus, and couldn’t buy property in certain places. Women couldn’t open checking accounts of their own until like 1974. Trans people are routinely subject to hate and danger.
Why do you think people are “regurgitating propaganda” rather than describing their experiences? Why is your baseline cool and normal and theirs is “led by the nose”?
And it’s extremely lossy to compress all of politics down to “sides”. There are details. People experience and believe things. It’s not just like rooting for a baseball team (though for some people it can be, admittedly).
Emotions are unfortunately tied to certain political issues, thats the way it is. Some things’ll never change! Ah, but dont you believe them.
Well, they do both. But its easy to recognize the propaganda when its regurgitated because its usually the same words or phrases used.
Does that mean the topics that elicit emotions are invalid? What does it mean?