how to choose a side

If you agree that politically charged discussions can remain on the main index as long as the OP makes a connection to boys, then that's the status quo and you need not do anything. If you want all politically charged discussions moved to OC without exception, then you have some work to do convincing the rest of the community. If the community comes together with overwhelming support for your proposal, then the cogs would probably follow the will of the community, but as of the current moment the politics only on OC rule is not being interpreted to prevent stories that do involve boys. The specifics of who is right or wrong in the OP are irrelevant, not only to the question of whether it should be allowed to be posted on the main index, but according to Nightlight it's irrelevant to the guy who posted the OP (Kit). Nightlight thinks Kit doesn't care particularly about the children in the stories he's telling, but is only posting them as bait to trick people who he considers to be stupid oafs to make dehumanizing disgusting comments about children. The fact that they fall for it over and over again is not too different to the "dance monkey" bit that BC's unofficial Official Troll Wrangler has publicized. Kit obviously gets a kick out of watching his enemies make fools of themselves. Why argue the merits of your own side when you can provoke the other side into making fools of themselves?