# Why are all my customers who bring up politics from the same demographic group? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 8, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492 "2022-04-08T00:00:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/21 "2022-04-08T16:32:35Z")
Yeah, those are good points. I think next time this happens to me I will just politely say “No politics, please”. If they persist I may say “Brandon Won!” or “Be better.” ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/22 "2022-04-08T16:32:35Z")
Sorry, I shouldn’t have posted a joke like this in P&E (didn’t realize where I was - I open a lot of threads at once as I go through the new posts). ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/23 "2022-04-08T18:37:12Z")
Oh, I think the only mistake you made was assuming I watched Curb Your Entusiasm. I never got into it because #1 I don’t have cable #2 If I want to listen a whiny Jew, I’ll just record myself. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/24 "2022-04-08T19:06:33Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > If I want to listen a whiny Jew, I’ll just record myself. Oh, I’m stealing this one. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/25 "2022-04-08T19:29:32Z")
You’d think the right-wing dingbat would be in favor of the spray-paint restrictions. What if antifa got their hands on some? Or even worse, artists. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/26 "2022-04-08T19:37:00Z")
Seriously. Does he have any idea why that restriction was instituted in the first place? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/27 "2022-04-08T19:52:42Z")
I doubt he notices the contradiction. Sure they need to keep the spray paint away from teenage punks, but that doesn’t mean that he should be inconvenienced. This is America land of the free where I do what I want and you do what I say. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/28 "2022-04-08T20:00:43Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Sure they need to keep the spray paint away from teenage punks, but that doesn’t mean that he should be inconvenienced. Exactly. You don’t need a frickin’ law. Just refuse to sell paint to the gangbangers and antifa types and keep it available for hardworkin’ 'Mericans. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/29 "2022-04-08T20:03:51Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Exactly. You don’t need a frickin’ law. Just refuse to sell paint to the gangbangers and antifa types and keep it available for hardworkin’ 'Mericans. Yep. And, it’s easy to identify who should and who should not have unfettered access to spray paint. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/30 "2022-04-08T21:10:14Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > And, it’s easy to identify who should and who should not have unfettered access to spray paint. [![](https://i.imgflip.com/2/1yohw0.jpg) ](https://i.imgflip.com/2/1yohw0.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Retzbu\_Tox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/retzbu_tox/32/11829_2.png) [@Retzbu\_Tox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Retzbu_Tox)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/31 "2022-04-08T21:32:31Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I do think that if we can see each other as human beings and not just an enemy with a label, if we can share common (delicious) food and common experiences, then that’s a good first step to not hating and killing each other. That reminds me of this article I saw a few months ago about Jewish and Palestinian students going out to eat together for language “speed dates.” [https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/language-speed-dating-attracts-jewish-palestinian-students-jerusalem-2021-11-01/](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/language-speed-dating-attracts-jewish-palestinian-students-jerusalem-2021-11-01/) ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/32 "2022-04-08T21:49:24Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > You’d think the right-wing dingbat would be in favor of the spray-paint restrictions. What if antifa got their hands on some? Or even worse, artists. If you were willing to feed their prejudices, you could tell them it was a good Republican mayor who passed the law so that “those people” couldn’t steal it for graffiti purposes. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/33 "2022-04-08T21:49:38Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > > [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > > > Pretty much, yup. I get it all the time. Just grunt in response. > > Two possible outcomes from this type of response: > > 1. The people talking assume that you agree with them, which encourages them to carry on. > 2. Anyone else within hearing distance assumes that you agree with those politics/beliefs and judge you accordingly. Don’t forget 3. You get to keep your job. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/34 "2022-04-08T22:10:57Z")
> [@Capn\_Carl](#): > > But here’s what’s odd. Every one of them has been white, male, conservative, and over 50. No exceptions so far. I’m also white, male, and over 50. Do they assume I’m going to agree with them because of that? Or do they bring up politics everywhere? If so, why just the white, male conservatives? I used to experience the same thing when I worked at a history museum. Same demographic, but like many museums, our demographics skewed heavily to older and white. But many times visitors would assume because I was white (but not yet middle aged) I must agree with either their interpretation of the past or of current events. I remember one visitor told me it was a shame the neighborhood around Central High had fallen into disrepair and he considered the current residents allowing that to happen to be “disrespectful” to the memory of those who worked to desegregate the school. So I had a little chat with him explaining the white flight from Little Rock to the suburbs as well as redlining. One of my favorite conversations with an older woman when this way. Visitor: It’s kind of a good thing they were slaves when they arrived. They didn’t know how to speak English and they wouldn’t have been able to make it. Me: But there were a lot of people who came to the Americas without knowing how to speak English. We had a good number of German speakers who didn’t speak a lick of English. They managed well enough that many of them served in the Continental Army. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/35 "2022-04-08T22:36:09Z")
> [@Capn\_Carl](#): > > But here’s what’s odd. Every one of them has been white, male, conservative, and over 50. No exceptions so far. I’m also white, male, and over 50. Do they assume I’m going to agree with them because of that? Or do they bring up politics everywhere? If so, why just the white, male conservatives? It is just the dudes who listen to Conservative Talk Radio and Fox “news”. I get them on FB, where they complain every time the police arrest someone, and the suspect is released on bail, that it is Gascon’s or Newsom’s liberal policies that allow suspects to be booked and released aka what they call “catch and release”. Never mind that the tight to bail is enshrined in the Bill of Rights and has been around at least since 1887 or so. Same with Masking, trans rights, gay rights or Covid vaccines. They listen to THE TRUTH" and they feel they have to educate “the sheeple”. I mean, they know politics is politics, so sure they believe the election is faked etc, but those other “facts” are universal truths that everyone must be made aware of! ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/36 "2022-04-09T15:56:05Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Prince Of Pizza And Falafel Hello from Bucks County. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/37 "2022-04-09T16:29:31Z")
> [@Capn\_Carl](#): > > So I’m talking with this guy, and he starts complaining about how the current Democratic mayor of Phoenix created this requirement: “We gotta get him outta there!” I’m not going to argue politics with a customer, but I can point out an obvious fallacy, so I told him the requirement is many years old, and predates the mayor. This guy doesn’t miss a beat, he shifts the blame to the previous mayor, “that Democrat, Stanton”… So how old is the law, and who was the mayor then? ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/38 "2022-04-09T17:49:55Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Agree. And many in the chosen demographic only drink from the same outrage water cooler of Fox News. Yeah. Old, white, Christian men have been kept is a state of constant outrage by a steady diet of Fox news and AM radio. So, yeah, much more likely to complain. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/39 "2022-04-09T17:56:00Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > People who disagree with Democratic politics is not the same thing as “conservative”. But people who illogically assume that any particular municipal regulation that they don’t like must be directly attributable to a Democratic leader, and that the obvious remedy to the existence of this one objectionable regulation is to get that Democratic leader out of office entirely, do overwhelmingly tend to be conservatives. What I’m surprised at in the OP’s anecdote is that the griper’s response to the spray paint being locked up was to complain about the legislation. I would have expected the griping to be more about “those” “hoodlums” who spray paint graffiti on other people’s property so that “we” have to keep the spray paints locked up. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2022, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492/40 "2022-04-09T19:16:11Z")
> [@Retzbu\_Tox](#): > > That reminds me of this article I saw a few months ago about Jewish and Palestinian students going out to eat together [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/teBzetVsiQM/hqdefault.jpg "Tim Minchin | "Peace Anthem For Palestine" | w/ Lyrics") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBzetVsiQM) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-all-my-customers-who-bring-up-politics-from-the-same-demographic-group/962492.md?page=3)