Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)@iris@neuromatch.social
One of the hills I will die on: Everything is politics.
Whatever you're drawing a line and saying it isn't politics, I beg to differ. Politics have always been life and death for swaths of the population, and quality of life for many more. School funding, healthcare, immigration and asylum, there are people downstream of every single political decision. Politics can be arguing over what to name a particular street, but it is also, and has always been, who lives or dies. For the ways it probably is for you too, think funding hospitals, determining when it's legal to deny care, road safety, airline regulations, food safey, banned choke holds... heck, it's also the ecological regulations that prevent pollution that causes climate change that causes the kinds of massive floods, storms, etc. that decimate communities. Politics is precisely the big-picture, local and global planning that shapes so much of our lives.
It's overwhelming and paralyzing to care about everything at once, and it doesn't help to do that to yourself, so there's nothing wrong with filtering out a lot of it. This is just a commentary on the line of thought that any given event isn't politics anymore once it affects people. On the contrary, that is exactly what makes it politics.