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@ramin_hal9001@emacs.ch @amszmidt@emacs.ch @carmenbianca@emacs.ch the world "apolitical" may mean "without politics" but in practice it is just a term used to describe situations where there is no political disagreement with the status quoI strongly disagree. It makes no sense to accept a word has a definition and then immediately say you use a different definition just so you can have an argument.

The code I submit to projects, and code I accept from others, is not political. They don't come with any caveats that I must agree with a certain viewpoint, or that I expect someone to perform certain perfomative actions. I am political, and perhaps I start or contribute to projects because those align with my political viewpoints, but the code and the projects themselves are not political in any way. If you bring politics into my code (through comments, for instance), you're clearly projecting your views in the wrong place. Go start a political party for that stuff, I just want good quality code that fixes a particular problem I'm seeing.The reality is that politics is always thereIf everything is political all the time, the entire notion has 0 value to speak about. Nothing is special by being political anymore in that environment, since everything is, all the time, without exception.