This seems like it is unnecessarily pulling in the US left-right divide. Generally, if there is any other choice available for an illustrative example, that other choice will be less distracting.
In general, yes. But in this case the thing I wanted an example of was “a very distracting example”, and the US left-right divide is a central example of a very distracting example.
I wonder if there are any good examples of very distracting examples that are not in themselves distracting examples… what a delightfully referential question. It would be good to have such an example but it’s hard to think of anything.
Revisiting this. Maybe silly animal examples would work, like the monkey philosopher that uses banana’s in their examples and then fails to get the other monkeys to understand philosophy and instead just gets them focused on bananas… I like that this example would not distract people, but many people would probably fail to generalize to how political examples are distracting.
This seems like it is unnecessarily pulling in the US left-right divide. Generally, if there is any other choice available for an illustrative example, that other choice will be less distracting.
In general, yes. But in this case the thing I wanted an example of was “a very distracting example”, and the US left-right divide is a central example of a very distracting example.
I wonder if there are any good examples of very distracting examples that are not in themselves distracting examples… what a delightfully referential question. It would be good to have such an example but it’s hard to think of anything.
Revisiting this. Maybe silly animal examples would work, like the monkey philosopher that uses banana’s in their examples and then fails to get the other monkeys to understand philosophy and instead just gets them focused on bananas… I like that this example would not distract people, but many people would probably fail to generalize to how political examples are distracting.