I'm not sure you worded that right, but ya.

I understand where you're coming from, completely. It definitely feels like being silenced (again, because let's face it, this shit is mentally throwing us right back into childhood when our needs and feelings were ignored). I understand that desperate feeling of needing to be heard. But we're adults now, and the people at work aren't your parents. There's nothing obligating them to listen. Even my spouse needs time where I'm not ranting about politics. An hour a day is all he can do right now, and this is someone who cares about how I feel. But this isn't a rejection of my feelings.

One thing I've personally had to realize is that the stuff about politics isn't actually you. You have to find a way to have a degree of separation between the political and your actual core. I know it looks like they're the same thing right now. But think about what you really want to accomplish, think about what kind of culture you want to create at work. Do you want everyone to be as upset as you are? Would that make a good working environment? If you want others to be more compassionate, I think coming from a place of compassion yourself might work better. Right now it sounds like you're treating people in ways you probably wouldn't want others treating you. You can still be true to yourself, your ideals, and values without being quite so forceful. For some reason beyond my immediate comprehension, demonstrating the intensity of your feelings doesn't translate into people caring - it's rather the opposite.

This was a really hard lesson for me and took a few weeks to fully understand and think through. I hope you have someone likeminded in your life you can talk to outside of work. If you don't, please consider trying to find a new friend. You need someone who already understands, who you don't need to convince, to blow off steam with. Good luck.

you clearly have no idea what 'free speech' means... and kinda sounds like you lack self control.

insufferable comes to mind, regardless of how good your intentions are

"freedom of speech" means the government can't arrest you for your views. It doesn't mean the rest of us have to listen...

When everyone sucks but you, it's almost ALWAYS you that sucks.

This one's clear as day.

You sound really immature.

Nice edit, now you sound like an immature moron.

Maybe try shutting up about politics? Work isn't really the forum for that generally although it can depend on your relationship with your colleagues. If you want to talk politics try doing it with other people you have a closer relationship with, nobody owes you a forum for political discussion.

Look, if you agree to come over to my house to play d&d, everyone gets here, and all you talk about is your jock itch, do you think you'll be invited back?

Like it or not, a job is when you have agreed to perform a set of tasks. In a capitalist system, that means for money. But in any other system, you'd still be wasting time that's supposed to be spent doing the thing you agreed to do.

You could be a member of a collective or cooperative, and if you're still babbling about something outside the task you're there to handle, you'll end up being reassigned or otherwise censured.

Yeah, fuck capitalism, and fuck corporate bullshit. Just don't pretend that agreeing to do a task, and then not doing it while you natter on about an unrelated subject is acceptable on your end either. If you need personal time to handle any emotional upkeep, that's a separate issue, but being expected to stay on task is agnostic of framework

God damn who pissed in your Cheerios? Listen I am all for freedom of speech. I believe it is unbelievably important to maintain a free society.

HOWEVER

When you are at work unless your job is to shout about politics you should probably shut the fuck up. The people paying your paycheck do not wanna hear that shit and even if they do your coworkers might not.

There is a time and place.

"Freedom of speech" is intended to protect your speech from the government. It's not meant to imply that the government protects your speech from others. It's their "speech" if they say 'your opinion sucks, go away'

Did the thought ever occur that you might be the problem?

I mean question if you are meaning at work, or in your personal twitter etc...

That being said free speech is about being able to say what you want... but not about forcing others to be around said speech. IE I don't know your political views, don't really feel like digging through the post history because it doesn't matter.

Conceptually though, if say I worked with a racist for instance. he spent the day talking about how mexicans are taking our jobs etc... that would make the workplace very uncomfortable... and as I need to be at work to survive, I would hope my workplace would have an HR person willing to put an end to that. I got no problem if someone else believes that shit, or if he goes home and posts on twitter and other media sources...

Not trying to sound too apologetic to big business, but unless your job is to talk about politics maybe you should focus on your work while you're being paid for your time... Free speech does not mean people need to give you a platform or listen, it just means the government can't arrest you.

Well sure, unless you want to pretend you're achieving anything other than making yourself feel smarter by throwing around gotchas and completely failing to engage in any meaningful discussion. If you want to call it something else that's ok but it seems based on your replies all you're interested in doing is preaching to yourself to reinforce your own ideas.