Timeline for How to respond to posts that are primarily soapboxes for political viewpoints - either for or against?
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| Apr 8, 2018 at 0:18 | comment | added | user8838 | @Catija: The original title was so much better than your replacement. Why didn't you just keep it the way the OP wrote it? | |
| Apr 7, 2018 at 20:47 | answer | added | Jay | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 7, 2018 at 20:35 | comment | added | Jay | I have to laugh. Someone makes a post asking how to avoid political partisanship ... and someone replies that it's not political partisanship because his side is right and the other side is wrong and evil and despicable. Thank you, Tim, for illustrating exactly what the question is about. | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 12:52 | comment | added | tim | I don't think that there is a need for any sort of false balance. There are not two valid and equal "sides" in this issue; there are people who are openly racist and antisemitic, and then there is everybody else who isn't fighting for white supremacy. But if you want to avoid the appearance of partisanship, I would either just remove the example or replace "alt-right" with "Nazi" (which - while sometimes used as a descriptive label and/or self-applied - is sometimes used pejoratively). | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 12:37 | comment | added | Beofett | @tim yeah, it was a strained comparison, because I'm trying not to let my personal biases make this a partisan issue. However, I don't want to remove reference to SJW, since I have seen it used repeatedly, and feel that's a problem. If you have a suggestion for an edit that would preserve that concern without making this post seem partisan, I'd appreciate it. | |
| Sep 4, 2017 at 12:31 | comment | added | tim | You might want to fix your example (or just remove it). SJW is always used pejoratively, never as a self-descriptive label. Alt-right on the other hand is a far-right propaganda term; it is self-applied and not used pejoratively (in fact style guides recommend not using it as it just a euphemism for white supremacist). | |
| Aug 31, 2017 at 0:39 | history | edited | CatijaMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
The title wasn't explanatory enough of the question and the specific terms aren't as important as the overarching themes
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| Aug 30, 2017 at 23:30 | answer | added | HDE 226868Mod | timeline score: 15 | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 20:12 | answer | added | English Student | timeline score: 14 | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 19:52 | history | asked | Beofett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |