All Issues Are Political Issues/Quotes
"All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia." —George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
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"But everything is political, isn't it?" The question is insistent, it always comes back, in part because there is more than a little truth to the assertion it presupposes. Everything is political in the sense that any action we take or decision we make or conclusion we reach rests on assumptions, norms, and values not everyone would affirm. That is, everything we do is rooted in a contestable point of origin; and since the realm of the contestable is the realm of politics, everything is political. —Stanley Fish, Is Everyting Political? (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
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"Everything is sexist, everything is racist, everything is homophobic and you have to point it all out to everyone all the time." —Anita Sarkeesian (of Feminist Frequency) in a 2015 panel.
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"I'm fucking sick of the Internet (especially coming into 2016) [...] and people on the Internet having this Social Justice Warrior-like mindset towards everything. Everybody gets triggered about everything, everybody gets offended about everything. You can't let out any non-filtered opinion here on YouTube without taking a bashing or without taking some kind of bullshit punishment from YouTube."
—Joey (The Anime Man), SHOULD I JUST QUIT YOUTUBE?
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"Personally, liberal students scare the shit out of me. I know how to get conservative students to question their beliefs and confront awful truths, and I know that, should one of these conservative students make a facebook page calling me a communist or else seek to formally protest my liberal lies, the university would have my back. I would not get fired for pissing off a Republican, so long as I did so respectfully, and so long as it happened in the course of legitimate classroom instruction. —White Hot Harlots, A personal account of how call out culture has harmed teaching
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"Trump won. It's over. Enjoy your new world, the "I'm offended” generation. You're the one to blame. |
The Contributor Covenant version on which the RFC is based is authored and maintained by intersectional technologist and transgender feminist Coraline Ada Ehmke. Ehmke believes that open source is a political movement:
Whether or not this description of open source is accurate, it is true that Ehmke thinks of open source as a political arena. As such, one must read the Contributor Covenant as a political document, with political means and political ends. Specifically, it is a tool for Social Justice. —Paul M. Jones, On the Proposed PHP Code of Conduct
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Internet Rando: Why can't you keep politics out of your books? —Paul S. Kemp on Twitter
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"The He-Man episode "The Problem with Power", without a doubt presents a political quandary. In addition, there are two opposing forces, each with their own internal power structures. But the political undertones in this basic story are easily applicable to nearly any similar situation in any time frame by anyone of nearly any ideology. — "Politics In Star Wars" on Disney Star Wars is Dumb: Deconstructing the Deconstruction of the Star Wars Franchise blog
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"I miss the days when social media was just pictures of people's food. I used to make fun of that, I used be like: "Stop posting pictures of your food!" Now, I want that more than ever. —Andre "Black Nerd", WORST OF 2018 (Movies, Games, Geek) - Black Nerd Rants
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"[Social Justice Warriors] will whine and complain that everything is intrinsically political, you know? In their conception of the cosmos, even the refusal to make a political statement is, in itself, a political statement. If you were to write a story about the life and times of a Zen rock garden, I'm sure you could find an SJW critic who was willing to assign each stone their own race and gender. So, that's the first rule of SJW club. Everything has to be political. Everything is a political statement, no matter what. There's no such thing as art for the sake of artistic freedom, or narrative for the sake of narrative consistency. |
Chuck Wendig's song
sing along with me — a Twitter thread
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