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bluefirebrandlast Tuesday at 6:26 AM3 repliesview on HN

> Everything is political

This is such a tedious worldview

Maybe everything is political, but it doesn't have to be that way


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edentlast Tuesday at 7:43 AM

"there are only:

Two races: white and "political" Two genders: Male and "political" Two hair styles for women: long and "political" Two sexualities: straight and "political" Two body types: normative and "political"

https://twitter.com/emmahvossen/status/1138841342921060354?l...

lambertsimnellast Tuesday at 8:31 AM

I wonder whether people who disagree about this are talking at crossed purposes. I think there's politics in a narrower sense (concerning partisanship and state intervention) and politics in a wider sense (concerning power relations and decision making). To depoliticise things in the former sense (by depolarising and deregulating) isn't to depoliticise them at all in the latter sense. In society, arguably everything is economic, legal, psychological, etc. Presumably, what people mean when they say "everything is political" is that politics in the wider sense is both important and on this list.

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IAmBroomlast Tuesday at 9:42 PM

Any interaction between three or more people is inherently political.