That's the thing I never really managed to understand. Why (and how) can't some people realize there are some matters which are fucking pressing, instead of some sterile debates such as this one. I think honestly, that idpol is just a symptom of something far worse, aka the inability of our current societies to delve deeper into matters that should be studied and understood by the public, or even worse, trying actively to overwhelm the public with absolutely worthless information, while barely mentionning shit that actually matters. You never hear about the children in Yemen, nor about the fact the ice levels are getting lower and lower. Here's something in the same vein. In France, we use gendered pronouns, and there had been something like 2-3 days straight of news reports on saying "le" or "la" covid a few months back. People were (and still are) fucking dying because of neoliberalism and incompetence, and the only thing they could speak about was whether we used the correct pronoun for the disease. And after the election results, those were somehow the exact same fucking ghouls praising Biden's victory as a victory for progressive ideas because her fucking running mate is a woman of colour, while not talking about policy at all.
TLDR : Get news from scientific sites or specialized reviews for shit that matters to you, mainstream media isn't telling lies most of the times, but they're purposefully hiding parts of the story, or not mentionning said stories to begin with. And when someone actually takes the aforementioned stuff seriously, you know you either have to educate them, or ignore them as much as possible.
That's the thing I never really managed to understand. Why (and how) can't some people realize there are some matters which are fucking pressing, instead of some sterile debates such as this one. I think honestly, that idpol is just a symptom of something far worse, aka the inability of our current societies to delve deeper into matters that should be studied and understood by the public, or even worse, trying actively to overwhelm the public with absolutely worthless information, while barely mentionning shit that actually matters. You never hear about the children in Yemen, nor about the fact the ice levels are getting lower and lower. Here's something in the same vein. In France, we use gendered pronouns, and there had been something like 2-3 days straight of news reports on saying "le" or "la" covid a few months back. People were (and still are) fucking dying because of neoliberalism and incompetence, and the only thing they could speak about was whether we used the correct pronoun for the disease. And after the election results, those were somehow the exact same fucking ghouls praising Biden's victory as a victory for progressive ideas because her fucking running mate is a woman of colour, while not talking about policy at all.
TLDR : Get news from scientific sites or specialized reviews for shit that matters to you, mainstream media isn't telling lies most of the times, but they're purposefully hiding parts of the story, or not mentionning said stories to begin with. And when someone actually takes the aforementioned stuff seriously, you know you either have to educate them, or ignore them as much as possible.