The tech sector has almost never not been politicized, damn, are kids these days forgetting how much open source was fought for and defended?

Open Source is not influenced by political factors. Influencing factors are almost entirely economical, with the exception being decisions by lawmakers.

I'd rather they kept politics and so-called fights against racism out of Software, because they were never problematic there to begin with.

The terms master and slave for example are only in bad taste because people make them to be.

To channel RMS: The political concern there is Free Software. Open Source isn't a political movement, it's an approach to software development that has similar ideas on software licensing.

I remember that they fought for freedoms, not for corporate compliance.

Not forgetting, they weren't there yet

Neither was I. I remember. Youth is no excuse to be ignorant of recent history.

Everything is political.

Silicon Valley is polluted, all your hardware is made in China, algorithms shape what we see.

That hardly a reason to sink deeper.

I agree. They are exterior problems and have nothing to do with open-source in itself.

You'd think China would be all about open source, what with the communism.

Consider that it might have always been politized, but the previous status quo might have been more convenient/pleasant to you (i.e. made it easier for you to ignore problems which affect others).

I think this sentiment is a few years too late.