Protip: saying anything like this makes you look like an absolute fucking moron to anyone who doesn't think "how hard should we beat our women?" or whatever is one of the serious questions of today.Pariah_Dog wrote:So he can go fuck right off. Especially when he starts inserting his politics into the article.
There is literally nothing untouched by politics. It was that way before you were born and it will be that way after you die. The tame, what-should-be-wholly-inoffensive assertion that black people are your equals is a political assertion. It is political in the sense that historically that was an issue which tore this country in half 1.5 times and it is political in the sense that it is currently topical what with targeted voter suppression, the nullification of the Voting Rights Act, and the honest-to-god public resurgence of white nationalism. "I don't think white people are superior to black people" is a political statement that will legitimately offend people.
People say "keep politics out of X" when their politics are regressive and terrible. Now, your politics are regressive and terrible, which is presumably why you're saying it. But I want you to know that outside of whatever dark hole you go to get lied to about how immigration is destroying the country or whatever, it doesn't work. It looks stupid. For fuck's sake, the act of speech itself is political, in that the question of when and what you should be allowed to criticize is a political question. Just ask China, or Russia, or Turkey, or Saudi Arabia, or our bill of rights. People outside of your bubble understand that politics is unavoidably in everything, and they understand that what you're actually saying, whether you know or not, is "my politics are the default and so you shouldn't say anything that makes me uncomfortable and we'll just call catering to me 'apolitical.'" It's just staggering self-unawareness and the egocentric demand that the world be sanitized for your consumption.