We recently had the UK elections, yet the number of threads about those was a mere fraction of that of threads about Trump. I realize most members are in the U.S., but it seems to me the numbers are still disproportionate when we also have many members outside the U.S.
I'm simply tired of hearing about Trump, AOC, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and any and all other right-wing or left-wing ideologues and demagogues in the U.S. My own country has a myriad of its own issues, yet even local media still reports about US politics a lot during election seasons and events like the ongoing impeachment debacle while often ignoring significantly more pressing local problems.
It is doubly obnoxious that those of us elsewhere in the world have to constantly hear about the circus of American politics simply because of the influence and interventionism the U.S. practices. I'm sure most Arabs, for example, are more worried about the crumbling Arab economies and regional conflicts than "white privilege" or "cultural appropriation."
And because of how much focus there is on the U.S., some people in other parts of the world have picked up the practice of trite, virtue-signaling, amplified outrage that is currently more or less a staple of American politics. This exportation of unreason is toxic, boring, and downright unfortunate--especially when it happens in countries with far more urgent and pressing issues to talk about and address.
/rant, I guess. Keeping up with world politics is nice and all, but only as long as "world politics" isn't conflated with "US politics" and only as long as we also get to hear and talk about the cases of people like Raif Badawi and Rahaf al-Qunun for a change--because, you know, being "woke" might just entail being up to date on more than social media wars about Halloween costumes or people of color in video games.
I'm simply tired of hearing about Trump, AOC, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and any and all other right-wing or left-wing ideologues and demagogues in the U.S. My own country has a myriad of its own issues, yet even local media still reports about US politics a lot during election seasons and events like the ongoing impeachment debacle while often ignoring significantly more pressing local problems.
It is doubly obnoxious that those of us elsewhere in the world have to constantly hear about the circus of American politics simply because of the influence and interventionism the U.S. practices. I'm sure most Arabs, for example, are more worried about the crumbling Arab economies and regional conflicts than "white privilege" or "cultural appropriation."
And because of how much focus there is on the U.S., some people in other parts of the world have picked up the practice of trite, virtue-signaling, amplified outrage that is currently more or less a staple of American politics. This exportation of unreason is toxic, boring, and downright unfortunate--especially when it happens in countries with far more urgent and pressing issues to talk about and address.
/rant, I guess. Keeping up with world politics is nice and all, but only as long as "world politics" isn't conflated with "US politics" and only as long as we also get to hear and talk about the cases of people like Raif Badawi and Rahaf al-Qunun for a change--because, you know, being "woke" might just entail being up to date on more than social media wars about Halloween costumes or people of color in video games.