It’s not that these things inherently are political. It’s more that society is being driven more and more towards consumerism, and learning programming is inimical to consumerism. It’s teaching you how to make the sausage, which you can’t do without also learning how the sausage is made. Then there’s learning about things like open-source licenses, which are about as leftist as you can get - and which is critically important to know about when you start writing code.