>> Stated another way, you're saying the people who want change are troublemakers who should know their place.
> First, that's only the case if you assume that by "political" I mean bad. But "political" isn't necessarily bad.
No, I assume that by "quarrelsome people with pet issues" you mean bad. I thought that was pretty obvious.
> In other words, to make something political is often to exercise power at the expense of others and to justify it by portraying your action as serving to overturn a status quo.
This is "speech is violence" level nonsense.
If someone challenges a status quo that you like ("makes something political" in your parlance), then actually defend that status quo. Don't gripe about how those quarrelsome people ruined your nice "apolitical day."