[leononame]

> Forget the politics and focus on the software? It’s simply not possible. Free software is politics.

I believe this fundamentally to be true, and not only for software or free software. A lot of things that people wish to be apolitical are political by nature, and like it or not you make political statements all the time about things.

"Just leave the politics out of it" is also a political statement, I see it often online made by gamers complaining about woman or minority characters in video games. Whatever you choose, it _is_ a political statement to make a character white, black or asian.

[gabrielgio]

> "Just leave the politics out of it" is also a political statement

And since everything is political what they really mean is "leave politics that I don't agree with out of it". COD historical revisionism to put USA in good light is ok but minorities in the games is too much politics?

[pipo234]

Agree with the observation, there is no such thing as apolitical.

At best, "just leaving the politics out of it" is a sigh attempt to depolarize a discussion that it is about the explode. "Let's not go there" — as in accepting the futility of trying to come to some sort of consensus even though that's what we really would want.