I look at it as a matter of both privilege and apathy. I get upset (not visibly, of course) when people say they don’t “like” politics, or blow it off entirely. Politics is not some separate entity, we are living in a society! An inherently political game!
Furthermore, there is no “politics” as just a concept. What part of politics? Literally everything is politics. Climate change and environmental care? Food and agriculture? Economics? Culture, beauty, art? How can someone blow off literally everything? To me its an attempt to shut down conversation and demonstrates they don’t care or have no idea about the atrocities that have occurred/are going to due to the West’s collapse and climate change. Am I out of touch? Being non-undedstanding?
Let me know, thanks
It’s upsetting for sure, it seems like they refuse to have wool taken from over their eyes. A few coworkers are like that, I like to get in quick quips on politics just to get them understanding that the Union is protecting us and the assholes in corporate are quite literally burglarizing us. Depending on the person, they may be “not political” as in they don’t enjoy it but have opinions, and others are fully apolitical and genuinely won’t care if you say Uyghurs are not genocided, Stalin was based and NATO is a terrorist organization in league with the largest terrorist group in human history, the CIA. They’ll just sorta be like ok, cool, I’m not sure what most of that means. But obv that’s different for everyone. I think that if you try engaging with them a bit they may come around but don’t force it