The people who know that better than anyone else are the ones destroying the CDC. "Politics" is your values in action. If your policies reflect the ideas that some people may have to die for the good of the species or that some feel pain less acutely bc of their skin color—that's political! 2/
The reason ACT UP was necessary was bc it was political to suggest that letting gay men die was bad. The reason Black women have to advocate so hard for themselves when pregnant is bc it's political to value the lives of Black women as much as white women. Of course public health is political! 3/3
📢OF COURSE PUBLIC HEALTH IS POLITICAL
📢LIKE I WAS SAYING ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH BEING POLITICAL
i would say a corollary to "politics is your values in action" is "something being non-political means it is something that fits your politics"
exactly - much like it's "identity politics" until it's the politics of the white guys in power, then it's just ~normal~