abaya

Oh, I know that feeling well. I used to utterly, completely avoid this place because it was so volatile and unhelpful to any kind of discourse. That's actually one reason my boyfriend (who is Lebanese and has so much to add to these conversations, if anyone would be willing to have a "conversation") doesn't post here very much anymore. He does not like the toxic feeling of this forum, and I understand that.

But, for now, I still want to engage with the issues (especially involving the Middle East), and the usual suspects no longer bother me much. I have an opinion, just as everyone else does, and we are all entitled to express that here. It would be a shame if Politics was left to 2 or 3 people to set all of the conversational agenda... granted, it's maybe 4-5 now, on a good day, but at least there is some diversity.

Sometimes, though, I would understand if the mods just shut the whole thing down. It's not like anything IRL (or even in people's minds) ever changes as a result of threads in Politics.

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