If you find yourself uttering statements like this, consider that you may have been mind-killed by politics.
Politics is a very encompassing term, and unfortunately, many people like folding into it even questions of human rights, dignity, etc. (and technically speaking, it’s true). The danger of avoiding having a well-defined, strong opinion on normality and morality on the grounds that it would be politics, and having a strong opinion on politics means being mind-killed, is that I could accidentally ignore the true/false and right/wrong distinction.
Unless you mean the form of those phrases and not the content (in which case—I picked the form deliberately).
A third possible interpretation I can see that you’re saying political discourse caused me not to think clearly about this topic, in which case I think you’re overrelativizing the issue by overcompensating to avoid being mind-killed yourself.
For instance, what numbers of “yes” vs. “no” would you expect for Republicans?
I’d expect most of them to identify as not-woke, let’s say 85-15.
After looking at the poll (of which I’m not sure to what extent it’s trustworthy), the real numbers are 36-17, which is 68-32 after renormalizing, which is different from what I expected. I’m not sure to what extent I should update on that.
Politics is a very encompassing term, and unfortunately, many people like folding into it even questions of human rights, dignity, etc. (and technically speaking, it’s true). The danger of avoiding having a well-defined, strong opinion on normality and morality on the grounds that it would be politics, and having a strong opinion on politics means being mind-killed, is that I could accidentally ignore the true/false and right/wrong distinction.
Unless you mean the form of those phrases and not the content (in which case—I picked the form deliberately).
A third possible interpretation I can see that you’re saying political discourse caused me not to think clearly about this topic, in which case I think you’re overrelativizing the issue by overcompensating to avoid being mind-killed yourself.
I’d expect most of them to identify as not-woke, let’s say 85-15.
After looking at the poll (of which I’m not sure to what extent it’s trustworthy), the real numbers are 36-17, which is 68-32 after renormalizing, which is different from what I expected. I’m not sure to what extent I should update on that.