nobody is outside of politics

apolitical as ignorant
- by choice, or
- by lack of access to education, or
- by circumstance preventing mental space/engagement/etc
apolitical as undecided
- not deciding on a political party isn’t the same as being undecided on political factors in general
- you enact your values every day, be the change
- the personal is political
- humans are a social species and politics is concerned with social arrangements
- your life is affected by others’ politics
- your material situation is dictated strongly by economic currents
apolitical as centrist
- centrism favours already dominant forces
- there are many cases in which not supporting the oppressed or even the underdog is either implicit or very tangible support for the oppressor
apolitical as privileged
- those with marginalised identities are politicised by their very existence
- some people are afforded ‘opting out’ as a choice and others aren’t
- often quite literally, as in, you can’t opt out of being killed for others’ politics
apolitical as objective
- there is no true objective opinion
- science is all theories, science is not objective
- data is not neutral, earth/technology is not neutral
- neither is any one belief system or knowledge system
- the best we have is intersubjectivity and pluriversality

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neoliberalism on Pinterest

there’s discussion of feminism/activism on Pinterest in scholarship but more from identity-politics/issue-specific perspectives as opposed to collectivism and wider liberation and anti-capitalism