• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    2 days ago

    Someone else said it I think better than I could: Colin Kaepernick’s protest was not political, it was ethical.

    You and I can disagree about the precise definition of “political” and whether it includes non-partisan activism that is dealing with pure issues of right and wrong. It is fine either way, I was just saying how I see the definition. I led off though by identifying explicitly political actions which are not “political,” by the propaganda definition. Surely we can agree that the “political” definition that doesn’t include those things is a bunch of shit.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      It was an ethical statement against somethinf that could and should be fixed with policy. Something that is enforced with law. It IS political no matter how much you want to pretend it isn’t.