seldoSeen several "put content warnings on politics" posts and I don't know how to tell white people that 90% of all life is politics. You're asking people to hide the stuff you find unpalatable and that's not a reasonable thing to expect other people to do for you.
nobloat@seldo I understand your point. Content warnings on here are not only for sensitive content but sometimes include even random things that you think many people would not be interested in. For example in a tech instance you might write a warning for non-techy subjects. It's just a polite way to let people know. Politics is important of course, but I understand people who don't want to look at political discussions until they choose to. It's especially useful for people outside the US
@seldo On a deeper level, you are correct. But the desire to not consciously engage with politics at a given time is also a political decision. For example, you would not talk politics, in its mediated form, in real life unless the conversation calls for it. You would not go to a clerk at the shop and mention some opinions about political theory, even if the shop and the context and you and the clerk are all within politics as such.
@seldo btw I am not with this camp or the other. Just saying I understand that point of view. But the choice is ultimately yours, of course. As someone who doesn't live in the US, for example, I sometimes grow tired of US politics elevated to the status of universality. Twitter was first and foremost an American company. Politics in Mastodon means different things to different people, I guess
Sören@seldo @nobloat surely you can see how “look at my cat making a funny pose” and “I bought a house!” vs. “Trump announced his 2024 bid” and “Mass shooting the day before Trans Remembrance Day” are… different levels of “political”?
And how the first two aren’t objectionable but the latter two make *some* people go “if I wanted to doomscroll, I might as well go back to Twitter; please provide a warning so I can *opt in* to this topic”?
@chucker @nobloat They are different levels of political. I think you would find people in wild disagreement about whether "I bought a house" isn't offensive and whether "Trump announces his run" is. It is not reasonable to expect everyone to account for the lowest common denominator of offensiveness.
@seldo @chucker Circling back to my original point, content warnings here are not only for what is offensive. Some suggest CW should stand for "content wrappers" instead, because that's what they are. Some people content-wrap their cat pictures. There's no hard rules about this. Of course, if you disagree you should continue using the platform in the way that you like. People made suggestions based on their preference, and to me that's understandable.
@nobloat he’s free to do so, but if he wants to justify “I want to post political things without warning” with irrelevant arguments like “when you really think about it, isn’t everything political?” and “Masto had like five people before I joined; who are they to tell me what to do” rather than to the very easy, appropriate, courteous thing which is to add a warning, then some people are going to mute him. His loss.