[Tildey]

The ability some people have to make everything political never ceases to amaze me. It's a conservative car because you can checks notes fit a wheelchair in the back?

It's simply an appliance. It's no more political than a toaster. Maybe more liberals like toast, but that doesn't make the toaster liberal.

[cafard]

If there were no discernible conservative/liberal divide, what reason would the National Review (or The New Republic or The Nation or...) have for existing? And this sort of piece requires no research and fills space.

[Spivak]

Choosing to not recognize that political labels, like all subcultures (punk, goth, cottagecore, vsco girl, suburban dad, tech bro, raver, lgbt), have “aesthetics” that affect huge cross-sections of people’s lives from fashion, interests, to purchases doesn’t make them go away, it only lowers your own predictive power.

[dTal]

It helps make them go away, over time, in the same way that refusing to use group statistics to make judgements about individuals (at a cost to your own predictive power) helps redress the inequalities that led to differences in groups in the first place.

[Spivak]

Ohh don't get me wrong, I strongly agree with this. But I think it's okay to take the blinders off to answer "why do these seemingly unrelated groups of people not buy hybrid cars?"

I really think the distinction is whether you look at these labels in good faith, care, attention to their history, and always through the lens of intersectionalism.