Measures are being taken in organizations, companies, and platforms like these to suppress what they call “political” content. This is nothing new. It is happening in schools, and workplaces. It is happening now but happened for decades before that even.
What we need to do is to ensure that everyone understands that EVERYTHING is political. Not just what oppressors define as that which challenges their power.
Everything is political.
Elections, abortions, and religion are all political.
Social media, sports, the Super Bowl, the Olympics are all political.
The politics of pets, food, what food you buy, where you buy or source it, how you buy it, and what bag you carry your groceries in is political.
Cooking, beauty products, bathrooms, vacations, travel, flights, trains, roadways, highways, cars, fuel. All political.
Your clothes, how you wear them, what you wear, how they were made, how they were sourced.
The materials that made your furniture. Which phone you have, your job, and which language(s) you speak. Who you have as your friends, what music you like, what movies you watch, what searches you do online. All of it is political.
Schools, workplaces, healthcare, medicine, banks, libraries.
Your race, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender, sex, sexuality. Code, technology, physics, architecture, chemistry, biology, time, science, maths, design is political.
Surveillance, your biometrics, access, having children, not having children, adoption/abduction, mental health.
Money, how you earn save spend it. How you move, how you talk.
Parks, gardens, playgrounds. Whether you have somewhere to live, and if you do whether you rent or own a home, what neighborhood you live in.
Work hours, wages. Rest, water, air. All of it is political.
Our bodies are political.
Anything we as humans touch, overlap with, and intertwine with is political. Every single thing in the world is political because humans have made it so.
When it comes to suppressing that which is political, it is in fact oppressors trying to suppress us exposing and talking about how power actually works.
So remind them and remind yourself, that in a world with oppression everything is political. Oppression is political. And we will never ever stop talking about it until we take down oppression itself. Everything and everyone is political. Keep going keep going, until every single being is liberated.
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