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there's a part of politics that has to do with excluding or not excluding, but that's not all that politics are about. politics are more often about allocation of resources, about decision-making processes, about fairness and justice, rights and duties. what's more, every political choice you make, every stand you take (or refuse to take), may exclude some, whether because the choice itself excludes them, or because they will refuse to play with you because they refuse to go along with the stand you chose to take, or with the stand you refuse to take. no political choice is universally inclusive. for every political choice, there will be someone who finds it intolerable and hurtful, and only some of these assessments will be grounded on perceived loss of privilege. not every decision to stay out of truly controversial matters (say, those that lead to conflicts that span multiple generations) amounts to supporting oppressors. forcing the hand of those who'd rather focus on specific issues for them to side with any political position you promote is also oppression, and it's often not even disguised. when oppressors prove to be present on both sides of a controversy, sometimes the right stand to take is to reject both.