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Technology is political.

If your project or organisation has a “no politics” clause, you’re saying you’re happy to exclude people whose very existence is political in our societies.

It’s only defensible if you’re coming from a place of privilege where the dominant politics are to your advantage so you can take them as given.

There is no such thing as “no politics”; there is only “no politics other than the politics of the status quo that I benefit from, which I’ve internalised as normal.”

@aral @OddDev have they said something stupid already?

@jono @aral They do not accept grammatical corrections because they think its pushing a political agenda. And went that far to add this to their contribution guidelines.