[joshuamorton]

Something being a political statement doesn't necessarily mean it is directly in support of one pole or the other. It's still political.

Saying "my business supports whatever the current US government's stated opinion is on all issues" is a political stance. It may not be partisan, but it absolutely is political. Those aren't synonymous.

[zepto]

Saying ‘we don’t want to be an activist organization beyond our business goals, therefore we want to keep political discussions out of the workplace’ is not the same thing as saying ‘my business supports whatever the US government’s stated opinion is’.

Nobody supports the status quo.

[joshuamorton]

Correct, but both are political statements. "We don't want to be involved in the political discussion" is just as political as "we want to be involved in the political discussion".

[zepto]

True, but your two statements in this comment aren’t really representative of anything being discussed here.

The statements we were talking about upthread don’t reduce to these ones.