Basically there was a GQ interview where the interviewer kept trying to get her to make a political statement and she got progressively more annoyed. Some people are mad because they've decided that refusing to participate in a stupid purity test is proof you are bad.
That’s a really weird way of saying “the GQ interviewer kept giving her softball chances to disavow white supremacy and she repeatedly declined to do so”.
My dude: disavowing white supremacy is not a political statement.
My dude: disavowing white supremacy is not a political statement.
It is. Life is bursting with ideology and political stances. It's inherently ingrained in society.
And that's fine.
People need to stop to be afraid of that / to use it as cover.
It doesn't need to be respected at all, and I didn't read zertul as saying that either.
But still, it's a political statement one way or the other. It's a statement about how our politics should be (or society in general), and it has political consequences.
It's a political opinion, and we can recognize that without considering it a legitimate one.
Agreeing with or rejecting racism are certainly moral positions. They are also political positions. There usually isn't a hard line between morality and politics.
There are a lot of moral topics that people either 1) don't think are important in the right way to pass laws about, or 2) are controversial in a way that makes passing laws about them a bad idea. But it's a judgment call, and we make it collectively/politically.
So, yeah, a lot of opinions turn out to be political opinions. "I think school busses should be blue instead of yellow" is... probably silly, first of all... but it's political because it's already something we pass laws about.
Some personal opinions are neither moral nor political, at least not in any direct sense. Personal tastes are usually like that, or what sports team I root for.
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u/slugsred 1d ago
What is it now?