Unpopular Opinion
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1. NO POLITICS
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While there is undeniable truth in what you say, I'd caution to remember that while politics dominating your life may be optional, its not for many. Trans people just trying to exist is seen as political, for instance.
While that is true, I don't think those people should also be given Carte Blanche to turn everything political.
I get that they are extremely oppressed, and have all the right to fight against it, but I fail to see where a pirate flag is an Anti-LGBT symbol or a tranphobic icon, as I've seen some claim.
It's not cart blanche to turn anything political. I'm just asking you (and everyone here) to recognize that somethings they may not think of as political already are. If you put yourself in the shoes of the person treating something as political and still come away thinking its unfounded, as in your pirate flag case, you've done what I've asked.
That is my usual Modus Operandi, specially because I know what it is like to be treated as nothing more than a meat bag, stripped of it's humanity. I just think that some cases are taken way too further from what they are actually representing.