Workplace chatrooms like Slack have become a place to talk about politics and feelings, but why do we all feel so comfortable using them?
Last week a friend on Facebook wrote about a personal quandary: She had posted a link to something about the recent killings of black men by police in an internal chat platform (like Slack) and was met with some resistance from others—not because of the subject matter, but because the content was violent. The fact that someone was sharing something personal and political was not the issue; people felt the safe space had been threatened by the post’s inherent grisliness.
