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Kid Charlemagne said:But so long as you're not an out and out whack job, ...
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Kid Charlemagne said:But so long as you're not an out and out whack job, ...
Kid Charlemagne said:No one has any right to try and make a person sublimate their own views. It's one thing to say that a certain forum (like this one) has a "no discussion of politics" rule, but its quite another thing to ask another person to sublimate their views under threat of financial reprisal - I won't buy from you because I disagree with your views.
BelenUmeria said:Personally, I have long thought that 99% of the writers in our hobby lean a certain way. Maybe I have been colored by people such as Sean Reynolds and Anthony Valterra, but I have come to half-expect certain political leanings. No big deal in many cases. I actually go to SKR's site from time to time just to see what is happening on his politcal boards. The difference being that Sean clearly labels his site and you know what to expect.
Originally Posted by Vigwyn the Unruly
The country is very polarized right now, and nerves are raw.
Steel_Wind said:Without putting too fine a point on it - I assume by "The Country" you mean "The USA"... it would be helpful to recognize that there are a lot more people out there writing - and reading said Blogs than just Americans.
Kid Charlemagne said:No one has any right to try and make a person sublimate their own views. It's one thing to say that a certain forum (like this one) has a "no discussion of politics" rule, but its quite another thing to ask another person to sublimate their views under threat of financial reprisal - I won't buy from you because I disagree with your views.
Pramas said:By and large, the game industry is actually pretty conservative.
EricNoah said:I read a great quote just recently about how political debate should work: "True debate is about more than winning; it is collaborative truth-seeking." In order to come to the table with "sound habits of thought" we need to do certain things: respect facts, research, and learning; think critically about sources of information including bias, credentials, funding sources and affiliations; examine our own unquestioned assumptions and motivations; practice open-minded listening; and resist "argument by slogan and sound-bite."
John Morrow said:What makes this confusion a real problem is that when people of various political leanings make a comprehensive argument in support of their position to people who disagree with them, they assume that if the other side hears and understands what they are saying, that the other side will agree with their position. When the other side often doesn't agree, they reject the possibility that the other side understands their position but simply disagrees and jump to the conclusion that the other side is unreasonable, stupid, inattentive, or simply evil. They can't imagine why an intelligent person of good character could possibly look at the same facts and arguments and come to a different conclusion. And once you stop believing that the people who disagree with you might also be of good character, all civility tends to break down.
(FYI, this is not the only issue where two concepts have been merged that shouldn't be, in my opinion.)
An excellent point. There's a book called The Crooked Timber of Humanity that lays out a similar argument in meticulous, beautiful detail: it's one that I recommend without reservation, and it's one that profoundly changed the tenor, if not the direction, of my own political views.John Morrow said:While I tend to agree with that (as I mentioned in another thread here recently, the original meaning of the phrase "politically correct" has to do with judging ideas based on their political implications rather than their factual or logical validity and I think that's very dangerous no matter who does it), I also think this idea leads to part of what is causing the inability for people who disagree to have a civil discussion -- the idea that to understand is to agree. That's simply not true in my experience.
DocMoriartty said:Why?
I have a whole list of actors/actresses who I wont see their movies because I find them to be rather repugnent political weenies whose views I disagree with.