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Name a subject or domain that involves people which isn't "political".
by minikites 5y ago
Name a subject or domain that involves people which isn't "political".
- dmpk2k 5y agoMe taking a shit? :)
- shoemakersteve 5y agoIs it right for you be taxed for using the sewer system? What are the environmental impacts of the massive scale of human shit having to be processed in treatment plants? Why does the government prevent me from shitting wherever I want, infringing on my freedom? First they take away your rights to shit on your neighbour's porch, then they take away your rights to see your kids on weekends. Stepping stones to tyranny.
- justin_oaks 5y agoYou're demonstrating that everything can be made political by those who want to take it on a political tangent.
- baq 5y agoNot OP, but yeah, that was the point. Humans are social, thus political, animals.
- goatlover 5y agoThat just means there’s a political element to human interaction, not that everything is political. Astronomy is about the cosmos, not politics, but astronomers engage in politics like everyone else. There’s an entire world outside of humanity, and some people are not interested in turning that into more human bickering, which you can easily find in explicitly political and news discussions.
- baq 5y agoPeople being allowed to look at stars is a political issue. I’m a big astronomy fan and I’d like more money to go to astronomers to do more research. That’s political…
- tstrimple 5y agoIf only there wasn't a political party who though legislating who can use what bathroom. Now your shit is political too.
- baq 5y agoPipes to flush your shit into aren’t there because it’s a good idea to have them. They’re there because somebody made a political decision to require them.
- Veen 5y agoMy love of my partner and my nephews and nieces. My enjoyment of art. My appreciation of the natural world. You can do a political analysis of those things, but they are not intrinsically political. Of course, some on the left believe that there is nothing that isn't political. But I don't think they're correct.
- NeoTar 5y agoFor lots of people around the world the ability to love their partner is a very political thing - homosexuality being illegal in a majority of Africa, and punishable by death in parts of the world.
- Veen 5y agoWe could quibble about this, but I don't think that makes their love political. The repression is external to their love of each other, not part of it. In fact, it would be a diminishment of their love to analyze it purely through a political framework—which is one reason many people don't like "everything is political". It diminishes many of the most important aspects of our lives.
- Shish2k 5y ago> The repression is external to their love of each other It’s not very “external” when the police are breaking down your door to force themselves into the middle of your activities. It’s something you need to be constantly aware of - if you want to have love at all, then you need to thread it through the government’s loopholes; if you do it in public, you are “an activist”. It would be nice if “love” and “government” could be cleanly separated - but for queer people, that seems to be a fantasy that only straight people have the luxury of believing in :/
- minikites 5y agoWas the art you're enjoying created in a vacuum? Art is often extremely political.
- MisterBastahrd 5y ago