Technology is political.
If your project or organisation has a “no politics” clause, you’re saying you’re happy to exclude people whose very existence is political in our societies.
It’s only defensible if you’re coming from a point of privilege where the dominant politics are to your advantage so you can take them as given.
There is no such thing as “no politics”; there is only “no politics other than the politics of the status quo that I benefit from, which I’ve internalised as normal.”
@aral Usually the meaning of "no politics" clause means "no off-topic politics", because it is usually: a waste of time; divisive; without beneficial effects on the real-world.
You cannot solve all the problems of the world in a project. So you had to decide what are on-topic business politic decisions that are worth to discuss and share, and what it is outside of project scope.
