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What should I do if I get dragged into political conversations? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Lenom@lemmygrad.ml to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml

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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?

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[–] Idliketothinkimsmart@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.