Rule 4: No politics; only light discussion of current events is permitted, and only in the Off Topic section.
Let’s keep the discussion focused on the series itself. If not the thread can/will be locked and offenders will be issued temp bans.
I’m a little confused.
Hatred for the colour of a person’s skin is not politics. It is racism and hatred. That is not political.
The same applies to homophobia, transphobia, sexism or other such similar ignorance. It is hatred.
None of it is political. Politicised, for sure. Incorrectly labelled as “political agendas” to give the ignorance some sort of “legitimacy”, “acceptance” or a platform, also for sure. But it is not political.
It is simply and purely hate and ignorance.
So why is it deemed “political” on here? Is there a post or thread on here that explains that in more detail?
I don’t mean to derail the thread, and would like to continue on just the series itself. There was some posts with suggestions where to continue such discussions but they’ve since been deleted, so I guess they weren’t okay? Is there a relevant thread where to discuss this, or is already being discussed?
Or is it a “that’s just the way it is” thing? And don’t talk about the issues of race, sex, gender, homophobia, transphobia etc in here?
Well, some political ideologies incorporate racism. Like National Socialism (Nazism) - it’s a political ideology, but it’s also based on racism. I agree that Nazism is basically just hatred and ignorance at the end of the day. But strictly in terms of semantics/definitions, it’s also a political ideology (that thankfully has mostly been consigned to the dustbin of history). I think because historically racism has been a facet of many political ideologies (from Nazi Germany to the American South), we tend to think of it as part of the political domain.