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Aral BalkanTo be “apolitical” is simply to be fine with the worst injustices of your time. Likely because they don’t affect you personally (yet).
Iván Zaera@aral there's a saying here in Spain: if you don't care about politics you are right-wing...
Gaffen@aral I think a lot of people claim to be apolitical because social media his trained them to. To be 'political' is to be the one who creates friction and pile-ons. A lot of people also don't realise that there's more than 'big-p politics'. A lot of what I do with @hearsepileup is to illustrate political issues from ground level. From a point of view that looks at the direct effect of these issues, not some abstract idea of what's bad.
However I know a good few people who are militantly centrist because they've got security and for the most part politics doesn't effect them.
Jon Sparks@aral See also ‘keep politics out of sport’, etc. And I remember in the era of ‘Rock Against Racism’ one prominent record producer saying pop music should be purely for entertainment. Which takes us right back to panem et circenses.
Stevens R MillerAnyone who says they are "not political" is saying they have no role in the process of change.
xyhhx@aral i'm a'political. i'm adverse to all politics. if you're a politician, we're enemies. i'm all for justice and ethics, but largely against justice systems and law enforcement
(tongue in cheek jokes aside, u right)
(tongue in cheek jokes aside, u right)
Terry Carter@aral Apolitical is a euphemism for apathy.
MattThis is how I feel about the nice people who never, ever say anything political because they don’t want to offend anyone. All they are doing is enabling the worst people.
Edit: sorry, the order is jumbled
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@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote@aral When I was trying to drum up registrations and I would come across a Christian who claimed that they weren’t political I would explain that exact point to them and leave them with this line from the Bible a claimed to care about. Whatsoever you do to the least among, you do to me.” It was gratifying to see the lightbulb turn on behind at least a few of their eyes.
KryptykPhysh@aral *Everything* is political. It's just a matter of degree.
ex or current IDF unwelcome@aral Got to age 71 until I finally joined a political party.
Kevin Karhan 
@aral EXACTLY THAT!
Unless one literally lives in a tyrannical dictatorship where free speech is punished wirh forced disappearance, torture and murder (North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Turkey, "P.R." China) "#apoliticalness" is at best a sign of #cowardice and #lazyness if not consent to violent tyranny, unless one literally had to disconnect for mental health reasons due to one's existance being declared debatable (i.e. as for neurodivergent, trans* and nonbinary people)...