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@Pineywoozle @noondlyt

People who insist others CW politics have all the tools they need to create their own filters. Politicians and political parties, and people at large, are named with proper nouns. It isn't difficult.

It's not that they're lazy either. They're being directly confrontational when they make this demand. So it's not laziness preventing them from helping themselves. It's not ignorance either because virtually every time it's some greasy white tech dude insisting on the CWs. They know how to filter.

I guarantee you no one online enough to make such demands is actually, truly triggered and put into mental distress against their will by you discussing politics without a CW. 100% promise. They might be annoyed, but it's quite a privilege to just suffer being annoyed in the face of fascism. I don't care if I'm annoying them.

And lemme say, if anyone thinks they're the exception here, that they truly are emotionally frail enough that everyone ought to censor the discussion of politics that they're affected by? Get offline. For your own good. Because you can't change the world.

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So at this point I'm out of excuses for em. They're being disingenuous, every time. They don't argue this for their own sake. It's not about them, they don't care about it being hidden from themselves. They care about it being hidden from _other people_. They care about the topics being discussed at all.

Insisting people use CWs for politics is just censorship by guilt-tripping. Folks out there using CWs on politics: they're not doing anyone any favors. Might as well stand aside at the book burning because stopping them would be impolite.