You can’t “stay out of” politics; shunning is transitive. I.e. if BasedCon associates with bad people, BasedCon is surely all bad people. If John Carmack then associates with BasedCon, John Carmack is bad. If you then associate with John Carmack, guess what?
People are open about this. A twitter response says “if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis”. Following this principle, if any of those 10 other people leaves that table and sits down with 10 different people, all those people must turn into nazis too, and must likewise be shunned, etc.
People are open about this. A twitter response says “if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis”. Following this principle, if any of those 10 other people leaves that table and sits down with 10 different people, all those people must turn into nazis too, and must likewise be shunned, etc.