No, nothing is truly apolitical. But in practice it's pretty easy to see that there is a subset of political topics inherently tied to the subject at hand, and

No, nothing is truly apolitical. But in practice it's pretty easy to see that there is a subset of political topics inherently tied to the subject at hand, and a subset of political topics that would be ginormous scope creep. (e.g. a window manager caring about colorblindness vs. a window manager endorsing a political candidate) It's pretty obvious that the colloquial statements around "no politics" or some form of "keeping politics out" is simply a way to express how much appetite someone has for the gray zone between the two extremes described above. It frustrates me that the inability to completely disentangle something from the political is used as a thin edge of a wedge that ends in (paraphrasing) "...therefore your project should spend effort on all my pet political issues." At worst it's a dishonest tactic, at best it shows someone's hubris regarding their hobbyhorse.