I think if you are active in communities related to news and politics you're going to see political and news related posts. It's kind of a part of the deal.
To be charitable the only defensible point to be made for AOC with that interview is that it was with the New York Times. It's not exactly an audience that wants to hear outside the party line to begin with.
Probably not necessary, no. Though they allow for the pronoun to be anything so it could be username/username and that would be fine as far as I know.
Disallowing pronouns via a community rule probably has as much of a counterproductive aspect as requiring them. Make it a rule and you get users reporting users for failing to use gender neutral language. It's the same effect but inverted I think.
It's always been a sort of opt in type thing at best. If you want to declare them go ahead. It just means some people will insist on honoring it and others will insist on dishonoring it, because rarely are pronouns actually relevant to a typical conversation: they're just a metric of how polite or respectful people are willing to be with each other because, well internet. Hopefully most people recognize it as it should: no big deal.
People don't have the same reaction if they affix a Mr. or Mrs.to their username, interestingly enough.
It appears they use putting your preferred pronouns as a litmus test for users on their instance; recent years have well demonstrated this is a bridge to far for sizeable portions of the internet and meatspace alike.
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I think if you are active in communities related to news and politics you're going to see political and news related posts. It's kind of a part of the deal.