like jam or bootlaces@idlestate@toot.cat
A while back, I tried to make this point in a reply to someone else's thread, I think.
In case I haven't done so yet under my own thread, here it is, possibly to pin:
When I make or see a call to "CW politics" what I [take that to] mean is CW'ing local partisan electoralism.
Particularly if it is exhortatively spammy, doomerist, depersonalizing, and not in any way unique to the flow of the zeitgeist. I don't come here to put my face in front of the firehose.
I do not mean that examining the -ism's to which we are subject or which we perpetrate in various ways is "making things political".
I do not mean that people talking about their lived experience should be harassed in the name of prescriptivist (and often unexamined) norms, particularly in preservation of privilege.
"I voted today" or "I had this experience volunteering for a community project" seems fair to exclude from a politics CW (but since I hold that CW's are effectively like subject lines, a CW even for those is fine!)
YOU SHOULD DO A THING!
or
THIS PIECE OF NEWS IS TERRIBLE/GREAT!
or
[HA HA|BOO HOO] THESE PEOPLE ARE SO [BAD|GOOD]
I only need so much of that in my media diet and really do not lack for opportunity to see it.
If you CW it, I very likely might read it anyway.
If you don't, your reach will shrink, not grow. At least, so far as I'm concerned.
I try to apply this to my own posts. I don't always get it right on the first try.
Since I rarely block, I figure I'm also fairly forgiving this way of other's stances.
(breaking this out to pin. Please do not reply directly. This is a statement, not a lead-off to a debate or discussion)