Some months ago, i was in a cosplay convention and there was a political organization called the women’s league of voters. The person that was promoting the organization called me and she asked me some questions about voting. I told her I am against voting but in a very outlandish and vauge way because I was afraid I would give out too much information on my politics.
This made me wonder what should I do if I get sucked into political conversations. Do any of you guys have any advice?
Saying no and walking away helps a ton of its just some random stranger. It’s crude, but works.
Not sure what that helps or solves, though. Shouldn’t we be promoting political discussion as much as possible?
If we’re too scared to even show we’re MLs, how do we expect to carry put a revolution
Not OP or the person you’re responding to, but my response is that not everybody wants to be a part of political discussion. I mean, yes, of course we are ML and we would, in theory, like it if people were open to learning about that. But I think for some people it’s just really tough. Personally I commend everyone who can do this kind of stuff in public because I know that I have the social anxiety of a hermit crab.
On a more general note, I think everyone picks their battles. Being that even mentioning communism can get you in a lot of social trouble. Even someone who regularly talks politics might just have a day where they don’t want to deal with it. Those are my thoughts.
I just don’t think a cosplay convention is the best place to have that conversation with a canvasser. OP has no interest in voting, and I don’t think it would bring much merit to try and convince them otherwise within a 5 minute convo.
If they’re willing to talk and ask good faith questions then I guess, but if I’m at a convention for leisure, I’d just wanna chill lol.
I do organizing IRL, and just prefer to seperste my lives, personally.