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Am I right to get angry when people "don't do politics" or blow it off/demonstrate apathy? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I look at it as a matter of both privilege and apathy. I get upset (not visibly, of course) when people say they don't "like" politics, or blow it off entirely. Politics is not some separate entity, we are living in a society! An inherently political game!

Furthermore, there is no "politics" as just a concept. What part of politics? Literally everything is politics. Climate change and environmental care? Food and agriculture? Economics? Culture, beauty, art? How can someone blow off literally everything? To me its an attempt to shut down conversation and demonstrates they don't care or have no idea about the atrocities that have occurred/are going to due to the West's collapse and climate change. Am I out of touch? Being non-undedstanding?

Let me know, thanks

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"yes I'm apolitical" supports far-right governments like the US

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Reminds me of the right wing western gamer crowd who will go on about games having political undertones as if meaningful art is a bad thing but half their post history is just China/Russia bashing and social credit jokes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The moment there is a minority character, they cry politics, but when there is a game where you are a soldier waging war, they don't call it politics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, being 'apolitical' is still a political ideology. And it's a bad one because of its inherent apathy. It's responding to the corruption and injustice at the highest levels of government by ignoring it. And when they're an eligible voter in a democracy, being 'apolitical' is consent and support for the actions of the incumbents.

But you also have to distinguish that from people who don't have the spoons to talk about politics at any given time. Making people too emotionally and/or physically tired to address the systemic issues is a core part of the system. That isn't on the individual.