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I'm sure the oppressed party in your example feels the polar opposite and don't want to hear your whining about how feminism doesn't matter in modern society because it's good enough as is. And I think that's the point :)

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I assume you're being sarcastic/exaggerating, but even so.

This is just a perfect example of how polarised politics is today. Society just needs to calm down and evaluate itself instead of bickering over nonsense.

Yes, every meaningful change in society has come to light because everyone calmed down enough.

How is meaningful change in society related to shipping Google Drive features?

Time and a place.

Politics has no nuance or filter anymore. It's all the time on full blast, forever. I hate it.

Plenty of Google Drive features are political. For example, allowing people to monitor who has read a document. Or deciding what the default permission set should be for new files. Or whether or not the files should be encrypted at rest. Or whether the Drive client should download and sync everything, or download stuff on demand. Etc, etc.

That's a strawman argument. I think we both know there's a distinction to be made between 'political' and mainstream political conversation. Of course if you're stretching the definition it will include everything.

Outrage fatigue is a thing.

In the words of the poet Z. de la Rocha, Anger is a gift.

I'm not sure I'd jump so quickly to dismiss the statements of either the parent or grandparent as an exaggeration.

They can debate this on their own time. Unless you're on the straw team, this doesn't matter.

There is a time and place for political discussions.

Work isn't one of them, unless, it's directly related to the work being done.

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