I would like to introduce everyone to a new sub. It's called s/UnionofRationalPeople. Let's work together to fight the forces that are destroying our country. Let's work together to fight censorship.

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[–]xigoi 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I'm not interested because, despite its name not stating that, the subspace is specific to a country that I don't live in.

[–]yellow_algebra_31 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Is this to say that, if it were not American-specific, you might be interested? As an American I think I should be primarily US-focused, but I think some of these same issues affect people in other countries too, especially Western countries. Do you relate to some of these issues? Would you be interested in collaboration in some other way, though perhaps not on this specific topic in this specific way?

[–]xigoi 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Honestly, most people in my country don't care about this SJW bullshit and we have our own political problems, but I'm afraid that with the USA having such big control over social media, these attitudes will eventually conquer other countries. (As you said, some European countries are already affected.)

[–]yellow_algebra_31 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I also don't like it when I see people thinking American politics has much relevance outside America. Sure, we share lots of common heritage and we should appreciate that and have solidarity with each other where it makes sense, but when some guy in Finland starts talking about gender neutral pronouns in a language that natively has them? Really?... Like you said, each country has their own problems they should be keeping their focus on. We can learn from each other but even then we must adapt ideas for our own local context.

I also feel we have some shared issues though. For example some of the non-free-speech stuff in some European countries worries me. Yes I don't live there and it's not my place to say, but it feels like criminalizing anti-immigration sentiment in Britain is related to suppression of anti-immigration sentiment in the US. (Though yes, Britain and US are more connected than some.) Or the anti-holocaust-denial laws in Germany seem worrying to me, even though I'm not a German. Or people telling the Ukraine they shouldn't compare the Holodomor to the Holocaust. And there are some campaigns that are clearly international, like the list of countries and their laws regarding homo- relationships. I don't want to intrude since these aren't my countries and I don't understand a lot of the context there, but if people from those countries wanted to work with me on what feels like a shared issue, I would want to work with them.

Does the US really have such a big influence on social media comparatively? People have their own local languages to do their politics in, don't they? A lot of people use English for international stuff I assume, but for local stuff? Maybe it would help to try to separate political stuff by country more visibly.