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Originally Posted by Bladesman87
Tbh politics in general is one of those things where there's a lot of social delicacy to when and where you discuss it. Maybe that's partly my crippling British politeness, but I have friends and acquaintances where there are certain things we both know not to bring up.
I've been in clubs where it was "banned". Politics came up and got discussed often enough but if there were any sign a discussion were getting too heated someone else could invoke the rule and put an end to it. That soft enforcement worked well in that environment.
The difficulty of places like office spaces is properly formalising the rules that most of us have internalised. Mostly I'm stuck on the idea that whatever conversations are had, you probably don't want an actual log of your political opinions being dragged up out of context at some arbitrary future date.
i dated a gal for 3 years who was Ukrainian. She had a bunch of friend of mixed Russian and Russian/Ukrainian heritage and when i met them all they joked they could never discuss politics otherwise their friendship would be over.
How do you reconcile that one group may feel it is justified, due to past borders, wars, etc for their army now to go in and crush and take over your country, when you think your country has always been in the just and right position?
You are not going to get them to reconcile that in an office political discussion and when raises ideas of 'cultural' or 'real genocide' and the other says 'ya you deserved it due to....', then now you have tread on ground that will become very enflamed.
You just have to avoid those topics in the office just as sometimes people have to, to remain friends.