Translation: “everything the right dislikes is to be declared “political” and taboo to discuss. Only things they approve of are acceptable conversation.”

This is the problem with “don’t talk politics” policies. It makes discussion anything those in power dislike taboo. It’s a way to telling people they are not allowed to discuss things inconvenient to those in power. Never trust this.

The political part is the mod intervention, not someone saying "I'm queer"

Saying something about yourself as an introduction is custom. Mentioning that you are queer is not weird or political. It someone sharing a fact about themselves. Me saying that I like girls is also not a political statement. It's a fact/trivia about me.

The fact that LGBTQ+ people get shit for just existing in society is fucked up and that's the problem.

When can we stop inserting politics into every little thing?

When I see comments like this, it makes 2 things plainly obvious:

1. The commentor is naive and doesn't understand that fundamentally 'politics' is the power dynamic in every relationship, be that between people, groups or with structures or things such as food.

It is in everything and connects everything. It defines your relationship and how you interact with the world and it's relationship to, and interaction with you.

2. The commentor has enough privilege that they don't have to worry about politics/power structures on a daily basis.

Some people can't see the wood for the trees

How is it political to talk about yourself in vague terms when introducing yourself to a group!? Would it be political if he said his hair is brown? How about if he mentions the color of his skin, is that political?

You make the statement political when you try to ban certain people from talking about who they are, if only white people talk about the color of their skin it's not political to say you're black, it's political to try to block people from saying it. Saying you're queer is on the same level of mentioning you have a wife/husband, in fact it's even more vague, it's in the same level of saying "since I was a boy/girl", because queer does not necessarily mean non-heterosexual it can also mean non-cisgender so it's an umbrella term to mean member of the LGBTQ+ community, if being queer is political then being heterosexual or cisgender also has to be, and I doubt people would be okay with having to step on eggshells not to mention anything that could make someone deduce their sexuality or gender. Hell, the same people who claim Queer is political are the ones who have the most problem with gender neutral language.

I don't think the problematic political part is a person basically saying "Oh, I'm queer btw", but the mod team redacting it.

I also think that trying to supress political discussion in the forums of an OS literally called Ubuntu is beyond ironic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy

Human rights issues are not political. The attempt by the right to cast them as political serves to suppress discussion and progress by making the very act of discussing these things at all be seen as taboo. We can't let that happen.

That point aside, libre software is pretty much inherently political.

Unless you openly state your identity online most people will presume youre a cis het white male, if you say you're not they ask for proof and then ban you

Only an idiot would think this is political.

Next you'll be telling us that declaring your religion is political.