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This post assumes politics and ethics are mutually exclusive, but in reality they are not. Politics is the distribution of political goods, and we are constantly evaluating those distributions as good or acceptable or not. Evaluating something as good or not can only ever happen if we hold ethical stances. In other words, politics always requires ethics.
I understand that the purpose of this post is to say something is fundamentally different about today compared to the past. But would you say the civil rights movement was less about ethics and more about politics? What about anti-slavery? Suffrage? Feminism? Labor rights in the late nineteenth century?