The Political Isn’t Personal
In a world where the political is personal, we signal our political goodness — and hunt for political badness.

Illustration by Christoph Kleinstück
Are you still saying “people of color” rather than “BIPOC”?
Watch your language, which is literally violence. But the worst thing you can do to the planet is have a baby. Actually, it may be even worse to serve up a big holiday turkey, especially if you then posted a photo online; this is called “meatposting,” and it’s apparently even worse than eating meat, because when you Instagram the experience, you’re perpetuating the idea that eating meat is cool, despite its deleterious environmental effects.
Judging and being judged gets exhausting. Perhaps you think of sports and entertainment as an escape from the stressful realm of politics. Wrong again. You must stan only teams and celebrities with the correct political opinions who are also taking the correct individual actions. That would definitely not, for example, include Kyrie Irving, the NBA star who has made headlines for rejecting the COVID vaccine, and especially not Tom Brady, the football GOAT who is a personal friend of Donald Trump.