[BeetleB]

> It makes it a bit hard to have serious political discourse when one of the sides is seeemingly trying to burn the house down rather than lose.

Your parent is asking for a place where there is little to no political discussion, not a place to have meaningful political discussion.

With the good old phpBB forums, they'd often dedicate one subforum for political/flamebait content, and it was allowed only in there. As a user, you simply didn't read that subforum if you didn't care for it.

Specifically, on those forums, you had to actively seek those venues to have these discussions. Today it seems you have to work to avoid these discussions.

[fleddr]

Also known as intersectionalism. Used to be a meaningless academic word. Now even discussing the baking of cookies turns into a political struggle.