Someone at work told me a very political topic was, "not political"

I've noticed when the right so strongly believes in an issue (like being pro deportation), the most extreme proponents of that belief will argue that it's, "not political" when in fact it is.  The far left does this with abortion legalization, "Abortion isn't political; many republicans get abortions".

The people that tell you Issue X is not political are wrong; the issue is strongly political; they just assume nobody disagrees with them on immigration, abortion, guns, taxes, or anything like that when in fact, they are incorrect.

If you have a strong opinion on an issue, at least acknowledge that you are being political.

"The personal is political" used to be a common leftist stance, along with calling basically everything political. Then it switched to "abortion is a personal issue, not a political issue" and "climate change isn't political" (despite climate change legislation being very clearly a political issue). I think the big phrase now is "all art is political." I never understood why each generation insists on arguing over the definition of "political," but it's as much a buzzword as any, so I guess it makes sense.

I think people say it when an ideal is consistent with either liberal or conservative ideals. Like discussion on the sentencing lengths of prisoners, would be considered apolitical because your opinions on it, likely do not fall cleanly on left or righ

I think people say it when an ideal is consistent with either liberal or conservative ideals. Like discussion on the sentencing lengths of prisoners, would be considered apolitical because your opinions on it, likely do not fall cleanly on left or righ