Goonhub
04-16-2020, 03:29 PM
I went ahead and scrolled back over the discord chat to see what this stemmed from.
Politics seems to devolve into name calling and antagonistic behavior. That's the part that needs to be tackled.
The problem is that there is oft a holier-than-thou attitude that individuals seem to take when the topic would (in their eyes) be in their favor, particularly regarding social issues.
To quote breaking bad "You're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole".
I would recommend keeping tabs on people who immediately spring to antagonistic behavior. To touch on what Urs just said above, there's people with mostly decent views, but arguing in very poor faith. "I can't get this point across without literally looking like i'm faceplanting against the keyboard" kind of faith.
Name calling because you disagree that person's view on things is never ok, no matter what. Yes you heard me - no matter what. It only causes further schisms, as OMJ puts it. In truth, as is with online personas, you never truly know that person behind the screen and their motivations in life.
Political discourse should be orderly. If someone says something like "I think bisexuality are just suits who are still in the closet" (I pulled that out of my ass, but it's actually been directed at me once) the correct approach for this discourse is to question it, or if you're not willing to engage with this person, simply state why you think that is wrong, or why you think that's hurtful.
Not call someone a shitstain facist. As soon as that happens, an admin should doot a whistle, or something that makes people aware that y'all should chill. A chill hammer, if such a thing could exist.
It's not about mandy being right and billy being wrong. Truth is - nobody really cares after a certain point. Only mandy and billy.
It's about mandy and billy both engaged in dumb argument while the onlookers watch from the sidelines, bored off their tits waiting for it to end so they can talk about something else. Preferably about the great diversity of cheese, or better yet, spacemen.
Politics seems to devolve into name calling and antagonistic behavior. That's the part that needs to be tackled.
The problem is that there is oft a holier-than-thou attitude that individuals seem to take when the topic would (in their eyes) be in their favor, particularly regarding social issues.
To quote breaking bad "You're not wrong Walter, you're just an asshole".
I would recommend keeping tabs on people who immediately spring to antagonistic behavior. To touch on what Urs just said above, there's people with mostly decent views, but arguing in very poor faith. "I can't get this point across without literally looking like i'm faceplanting against the keyboard" kind of faith.
Name calling because you disagree that person's view on things is never ok, no matter what. Yes you heard me - no matter what. It only causes further schisms, as OMJ puts it. In truth, as is with online personas, you never truly know that person behind the screen and their motivations in life.
Political discourse should be orderly. If someone says something like "I think bisexuality are just suits who are still in the closet" (I pulled that out of my ass, but it's actually been directed at me once) the correct approach for this discourse is to question it, or if you're not willing to engage with this person, simply state why you think that is wrong, or why you think that's hurtful.
Not call someone a shitstain facist. As soon as that happens, an admin should doot a whistle, or something that makes people aware that y'all should chill. A chill hammer, if such a thing could exist.
It's not about mandy being right and billy being wrong. Truth is - nobody really cares after a certain point. Only mandy and billy.
It's about mandy and billy both engaged in dumb argument while the onlookers watch from the sidelines, bored off their tits waiting for it to end so they can talk about something else. Preferably about the great diversity of cheese, or better yet, spacemen.