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There needs to be a taxonomical distinction between political views and what I have recently decided to call "normative views". Political views relate to government policy, and normative views relate to the way we use language and the way we treat each other, i.e. social norms. Whether we define racism as racial discrimination or "prejudice plus power" is a normative issue, as is whether it's ever okay to misgender someone. These issues are only political insofar as they can be affected at the ballot box, and they generally cannot. (Public schools teaching CRT is an example that you can go after at the ballot box.)
Fundamentally these are the same thing, the distinction being an arbitrary one determined by pragmatic concerns. At the end of the Thirty Years' War, the powers of Europe agreed that trying to forcibly convert people from Catholicism to Protestantism or vice versa was a bad idea and ought to be beyond the ken of politics, but that was only because they understood that the consequences of not doing that was another century of apocalyptic Wars of Religion that they couldn't afford, not because they actually stopped wanting to cleanse the world of heretics or thought that it would be a bad idea under more favorable circumstances. It takes an awful lot of punishment before people agree to put down their rhetorical (or literal) knives and move any particular argument outside of the political arena, but these issues often don't go away. They are merely waiting on the sidelines ready to be re-litigated at the right time.
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