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Re:CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew cont... by def13 on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @04:45AM (#43703040)
The politics of saying "no politics" is that you are drawing some line that separates some political issues into "politics" and others into "not politics". Because to truly avoid all politics is impossible; even if you believe banal, purely intra-personal politics are not political so much of the basic organization of a business & capitalism are politics. "Should we allow remote work" for example is a deeply political question that ties deeply into discussions about the rights/value of neurodivergent & disabled people in the workplace. To say 'I don't believe in God' is a deeply political and dangerous statement in some parts of the world, but fairly banal where I live. To contrast, in Indonesia, it is technically _unconstitutional_ to not believe in a "one and almighty God"

I wish people were at least honest about "no politics" to mean "lets avoid to unsafe, potentially divisive issues relative to our geographic location, and take the basic tenets of neoliberal, capitalistic society to be assumed". And yeah, that is a more than reasonable policy. Its a difficult policy in international spaces, because its very hard to not trespass that line when political contexts differ so strongly across the globe

Re:CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew cont... by lou1306 on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @06:11AM (#43703549)
> take the basic tenets of neoliberal, capitalistic society to be assumed

Well, then any discussion about an illiberal oclocratic executive (such as 47's) should be fair game...

Re:CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew cont... by DrillShopper on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @09:17AM (#43705127)
> The politics of saying "no politics" is that you are drawing some line that separates some political issues into "politics" and others into "not politics".

I find someone's heuristics for deciding which category a statement falls into chiefly turns on if they agree with the statement. If they agree with the statement then it is not political, and if they disagree, it's political.