"Now, Ray," admonished the Professor, "we're here to discuss electromagnetism, not politics."
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"electromagnetism"
Oh no! The Professor has built Scarsdale a villainous electromagnetic super weapon, hasn't he?!
"not politics"
It's amazing how easily people are let off the hook for believing harmful and unethical things in the name of "talking politics." It's not like politics are some kind of hypothetical fantasy that has nothing to do with reality and therefore is simply a chance for people who disagree about this nonsense fantasy to get angry at each other. Your political beliefs expose who you really are and how you really feel about other people. Of course some guy who thinks poor people should choose between starvation wages and starving faster might be considered the nicest guy in the world among his rich friends. If you all believe the same "politics," you don't think of your views as "political." But as soon as somebody disagrees with you because they think your political views are harmful, you decide maybe talking politics is the problem.
No. The problem is you. You and all your friends. People who don't want to talk politics, or who want all of their entertainment to be politics free, have terrible politics. If you're not ashamed of your politics, you speak freely of them with whomever you meet. You mention them to strangers. But if your politics are hurtful and disgusting, you become annoyed with people's freedom to criticize you when you mention them and so maybe you stop mentioning them in public. Then you get angry because you feel like you're being silenced but what you're really doing is choosing to self-censor because you have no capacity for self-reflection. Instead of being angry that people have criticized your beliefs, perhaps question why your beliefs are constantly criticized.
Oh wait. They do ask that question. The problem is they never look inside themselves for the answer. They simply decide that everybody else is too sensitive and brainwashed by propaganda. Probably because they don't understand any belief that might ask you to sacrifice a little something for the greater good.
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