It conflates the broadest dictionary definition of “politics” with the narrow, collaquial one
Actually, it completely erases the narrow, colloquial one. I think the colloquial definition of politics is completely unacceptable to use, and I refuse to legitimise it. Words have meanings and I’m going to treat people like they used the correct ones. If they have a problem with that, they can say what they mean instead of what they don’t.
Treating politics like something you can escape is a microaggression against BIPOC people whose identities are politicised every day, and is therefore racist. I’m not going to legitimise racism. If people want to act like politics is avoidable, they can go do it at the klan rally.
A definition of a word that your audience doesn’t understand is pointless. Language is defined from bottom up, not top down.
You’d better be nonwhite to be typing that second paragraph, because I’m not white either.
Telling me “everything is political” when my identity is politicized unfairly sounds more like an excuse for it than defending POC. You sound like you’re making an excuse for culture warriors who bitch and moan whenever a non-white character shows up. LGBT people in my experience tend to correctly insist that their identities are not political. That makes more sense, it correctly puts the onus on the right wing assholes that politicized it.
Everything is political. You can’t win an argument with a bigot by saying your identity is political, because it’s not true. We have to erase the stigma against politics. And you’re not helping with that.
Actually, it completely erases the narrow, colloquial one. I think the colloquial definition of politics is completely unacceptable to use, and I refuse to legitimise it. Words have meanings and I’m going to treat people like they used the correct ones. If they have a problem with that, they can say what they mean instead of what they don’t.
Treating politics like something you can escape is a microaggression against BIPOC people whose identities are politicised every day, and is therefore racist. I’m not going to legitimise racism. If people want to act like politics is avoidable, they can go do it at the klan rally.
A definition of a word that your audience doesn’t understand is pointless. Language is defined from bottom up, not top down.
You’d better be nonwhite to be typing that second paragraph, because I’m not white either.
Telling me “everything is political” when my identity is politicized unfairly sounds more like an excuse for it than defending POC. You sound like you’re making an excuse for culture warriors who bitch and moan whenever a non-white character shows up. LGBT people in my experience tend to correctly insist that their identities are not political. That makes more sense, it correctly puts the onus on the right wing assholes that politicized it.
Everything is political. You can’t win an argument with a bigot by saying your identity is political, because it’s not true. We have to erase the stigma against politics. And you’re not helping with that.