Well, My gender is a social construct created from the ideas of the society in which I live. My gender arises from the politics of a particular time and place, informed by all of the culture and myth and history that came before. My gender is part of the memetic evolution of the zeitgeist. My gender is incredibly cool because of how political it is, and if it weren’t political, I’d be so so bored with it.

You shouldn’t see politics as only the bad things in the world. Politics is your gender too, and your gender is great. Politics is great stuff too.

Yes, that irony was on purpose. I know you won’t reply, but I’ll explain. You want a space free from politics, where your political viewpoint is enforced. That’s hypocrisy. We want a political space for our ideology, where our political viewpoint is enforced. That’s logical and consistent. What I’m saying is, what you want is impossible, because you broke your own rules. You’re already on our side of this debate, you’re just struggling against yourself and hurting your own aims. And I hope one day you get on the same page as yourself.

I do value safe spaces. For example, MULTIVERSE is a safe space for minorities such as otherkin, and I am currently having an internal debate over whether the users here should have to see your apoliticism. Your political ideology is something we consider dangerous and do not want to see. So I am weighing the cost-benefit of allowing the users on this website including Myself to rebutt your political viewpoint against the cognitive burden of feeling a responsibility to do so.

Obviously there would not be any issue if you simply avoided expressing your apoliticist politics.

The nature of our society is that we are always actively participating in governance of the social groups in which we participate. The common definition is My definition. Even at this very moment, we are arguing over how to govern your community, and you are through well-intentioned carelessness poorly governing My identity, by accidentally misgendering Me. Our every action is political. I ask that you be aware of this fact, rather than retreating from responsibility.

Wikipedia says:  
the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals  

Merriam-Webster (My personal favourite) says:  
competition between competing interest groups or individuals for power and leadership (as in a government)  
and:  
the total complex of relations between people living in society  

Collins says:  
the actions or activities concerned with achieving and using power in a country or society.  
and:  
the ways that power is shared in an organization and the ways it is affected by personal relationships between people who work together  

So, anything having to do with power or decision making within a group of people is politics. When you and your mates decide which takeout place to order from, the decision follows a political process. When your parents told you it was bed time, they used political power. When you come to trust someone’s opinion in guiding your personal decisions (like whether you should really include the chapter on bird mating calls in your work in progress fantasy novel), you’re engaging in politics.

Politics is all around us. It’s ridiculous to have a negative opinion of it. If there were no politics, there would be no societies, no families, no friendships, and no romantic relationships, because there would exist not a single mechanism for any group to have unified purpose or choice.

Unless you misdefine politics. That’s the trick. And it’s a very easy trick, you can do it without noticing. All you have to do is think in the back of your mind “politics is anything I disagree with”.

Boom. So long as you have the rhetorical skill or the social power to defend this assertion, you can take advantage of the propaganda of the ruling class for your own ends, and attack any goddamned idea in the world you want. You have an intrinsic claim to legitimacy in proportion with your ability to normalise your own opinions, and anyone who disagrees with you is committing “violence”. You have a terrible and destructive power to silence any and all dissent. What you say will go. Nobody can stop you.

What I have described just now is the worst extent of the power of belief in apolitics. Most people who believe in apolitics won’t act this way… if you don’t push them. If you keep agreeing with what they say in a vague sense, or phrase your disagreements charismatically, they won’t use this power. But it’s still there. And there is no sense at all in leaving around terrible powers that reinforce hierarchies of norms. Especially not if you are queer, neurodivergent, disabled, of colour, otherkin, or anything else that goes against the status quo. Because in a battle to attack the political, that which can claim legitimacy through normalcy will always win.

I’m people who try to influence the way a country is governed. I’m a political activist. In fact, if you vote, you’re people who try to influence the way a country is governed too. So everything you and I do is politics, and the term has very little meaning.

But that definition is kind of bad, I much prefer the various other definitions I analysed on My blog. I could make the same arguments over again, but I don’t want to.

TL;DR: Everything is political.

If you choose to use a different definition of a common word than everyone else, you’re gonna have to reckon with semantics. If you made a community called c/aryanmemes and explained you’re using “aryan” to mean “nice person”, people would call you a Nazi for using a Nazi dogwhistle. “Politics” as a negatively loaded word is also a conservative dogwhistle. I’m upset with you for using a dogwhistle and expecting people not to be offended.

I like political movies like Star Wars. Political books like The Hunger Games. Political music like Enter Shikari. Political games like Frostpunk.

For Me, politics isn’t the same as fighting. That’s your worldview. You’re the one who thinks politics is being angry and hurt. For Me, politics is life and joy. And what you are doing is resulting in people forgetting that all that joy they feel comes from politics.

To Me, that meme is political and it’s fun, and as a trans person, I would hesitate and worry about posting it on your community. Because the message you are sending, regardless of your intent, is intimidating to people like Me. You can’t control that except by admitting that politics is fun.

I love gathering around the board game table to play Secret Hitler or Coup. I bet you like politics too, and you’ve just forgotten it. If you’re not a centrist, then admit that you’ve had an absolute blast with politics some of the time.

I don’t have a choice whether My gender is political. Whether My species identity is political. Whether My neurotype is political. The truth is, everything is political.

But people like you want to transform politics into a dirty word, one that can be used against My gender, My species identity, My neurotype. You want to encourage people to fear and hate politics. That’s the complicity. That will always create a breeding ground for fascism.

Everything is political. Apathy is complicity.

Thanks for crossposting this comic out of that silly centrist community, OP.

A bit transphobic of him to turn her down just because she’s wearing the lowercase t transgender symbol /ref

I’m really glad I made a PieFed instance, because it means I get to ban people like you who obstinately push realist authoritarian points that were rebutted several messages ago, like you’re on some kind of script for exhausting the enemy. MULTIVERSE’s rule about limited authoritarianism is something I’m really proud of in how it specifically bans these kinds of tactics which are optimised to exhaust and/or intimidate the left wing opposition.

I mean I know you by reputation, I’ve seen you do this kind of thing before. But I still gave you the benefit of the doubt today, and it’s making this tankie ban feel just so much more satisfying.

It’s also what Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jewish Holocaust survivor did.

“What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.”

A Holocaust survivor is calling people like you Nazis. Stop and think. Take responsibility. Stop reacting, stop defending, and use your head to tell right from wrong.

They’ve been asserting their personhood for a long time. Check out !transspecies@lemmy.blahaj.zone. I’m not an animal, but I’m not a human either, and I have had close relationships with many therians. But even if therians didn’t exist, you should still choose to be kind. This slaver mentality of expecting marginalised groups to stand up for themselves by your standards is a catch-22. You’re in control of your own standards. You can’t make everyone else responsible for your own choices.

That’s our choice, personhood is a social construct. Don’t be a realist, take personal responsibility for your worldview. Choose whether animals are people.

I bet when Jeff Bezos hunts people for sport on his private island, he takes a minute to respect their sacrifice. And if the first shot doesn’t kill them, he makes sure to shoot them in the head so they don’t suffer.

I have terrible news for you. That meme is an antisemitic dogwhistle

I’m great at cooking, I just refuse to cook meat. It’s gross.