It's about a political as glasses, braces, crutches, wheelchairs, insulin pumps, or any other exterior medical devices. Fuck off with that false equivalency bullshit.

i came here from the modlog and i just want to say that i think the removal is fine(ish), and the comment to which i'm replying is, basically, wrong, but the mod's explanation is also wrong and needs to be called out.

everything is political, even birth control, and it would be even if no one was trying to ban it (though i think it was inevitable that this is the case). birth control is a means by which people who can become pregnant can actively choose to prevent that. pregnancy comes with a variety of political expectations and consequences, and so choosing to prevent pregnancy is political.

as for the mask thing, i do think that there are some very-online right wingers who would have the same analysis as the user to whom i am responding, but, in fact, that reasoning is a desire to avoid political entanglement, so it is not actually an explanation of how masking is political. it's also not the case that wearing the mask is carrying a banner for fauci, although i believe there are factions on the right who see it this way.

so, to reiterate, removing was fine (though probably unnecessary), the commenter is a dum dum, but the mod doesn't know what "political" means and that is a really bad omen for this sub.

Not to anyone except these crybullies. A crude hat would be crude for some visible reason other than being a hat.

A mask is only political to these assholes trying to stop people from wearing it, and during the pandemic it was only political to the same assholes who couldn't recognize that their personal freedom didn't extend to increasing risks to the immunocompromised, elderly, and others who were at high risk.

The freedom they demanded then would have had health implications for people around them, and the freedom they are trying to take away now has health implications for many of the people still choosing to mask up.