How do you deal with people who are in tech, publish a blog/have a tool/a newsletter, but push their political views down your throat?
Do you just selectively pick the useful aspects and ignore their political views or do you just completely ignore them?
@dotemacs This is always a challenge. I think it is made worse by the fact that we can't have rational discussions any more.
@dotemacs "political views" can mean a lot of things but if it means "bigotry" then I block 'em!
I can offer a really complicated answer, if you want.
Imagine this newsletter person lived in a faraway place, and was talking about politics between two local groups you've never heard of. It'd be no trouble at all.
Even if they were wrong, you wouldn't feel any need to correct them.
It's different when it's your team that's part of the conversation. It feels intolerable, because it's personal, and it affects issues that are personally important to you.
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It's the personalization that does it. When we identify ourselves with ideas, we protect them, just as we protect ourselves. An attack on the idea is an attack on you, your tribe, your future. It's an attack on what's right and good and humane.
We we feel that way, our only choices are fight, or flight. Just standing there and listening to it becomes impossible. The alternative is not to personalize it, to make a distinction between what we prefer, and what we are.