• fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    It’s considered impolite to espouse political views here in Australia.

    However, I’ve found that taking about issues rather than identities, with a modicum of diplomacy, is usually fine.

    I think this would be a lot more difficult in the US with the issues at hand because you’re not deciding mundane things like whether to subsidise roof top solar but rather, whether autocracy would make a nice change.

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      2 months ago

      You used an conservative American political dog whistle when you mentioned identity politics and you’re part of western hegemony as an Australian, so I would be a bad leftist if I let it be.

      It’s a dog whistle here because everyone has an identity that comes attached w perpetually unaddressed needs and the ruling class of people only considers their own identity to be the national discourse; establishing that other identities are little more than causes for division.