Originally Posted by MaxQ

Perhaps it's time to revise the TOS? ( which I have never read)
Or perhaps automatically move politically fraught discussions to Hangar Talk?

Atsomoto is correct. EVERYTHING involving people is political.
I use techniques used by writers in the former communist controlled countries. Write something with an oblique reference and rely on the reader to make correlations so as to understand what and whom is actually being refered to.
It is a method that has its limitations.