This may sound like a troll, but how do we delineate what politics belong in the office and what do not? As I noted elsewhere in this thread, I think it's more

This may sound like a troll, but how do we delineate what politics belong in the office and what do not? As I noted elsewhere in this thread, I think it's more ambiguous these days, not less. As a few concrete examples: * Say I refuse to buy Chinese-made goods because I oppose the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. What do I do if my employer considers doing business in China? Should I not mention this, because it's "political"? * What if it's 1933, and my employer is IBM, and the customer is Nazi Germany? * Say I oppose H1B visas because they take jobs away from American citizens, and my employer considers expanding the H1B workforce. Should I speak out against it, or hold my tongue because my motives are "political"? * Say I believe in equal rights for gay couples, and my employer is considering expanding health coverage to same-sex partners. Should I speak out in favor of it? In each of these examples, it seems to me there's a spectrum of options, ranging from: A. No constraints on in-office behavior; I speak out about anything. B. In the office, I am purely a shareholder-profit-maximizing robot. I don't think either of those extremes is very satisfying—I expect many of us would say it is noble to oppose selling adding machines to Nazi Germany, but that we'd have many more questions when it comes to some of the other examples. Unfortunately, I think that means that there's no simple answer here. "No politics in the workplace" can result in ghastly, amoral outcomes (selling adding machines to the Nazis). But "every culture war, all the time" is a great way to be a dick. I think my personal code here is, "try not to be a dick." Past that point, I don't think there are easy answers.