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wpot posted...

I didn't say anything of the sort. People can talk about what they want when they want. Anyone else can listen when they want to.

While that's all true, that's also not what the topic is about. This topic is about people demanding that entertainers don't say anything political for the sake of maintaining their escapism. Tuning out of political discussions is generally fine (though doing that all the time is harmful and self-centred), but demanding that political discussions stop because you don't want to participate in people trying to make the world a better place is not.

wpot posted...

It is fair to want some entertainment that creates a safe, politics-free zone.

Here's the other thing: What is "politics-free entertainment"? Because 99% of the time, when people complain about media being "too political," it's not that they regularly consume media with no political message whatsoever, it's that they disagree with that particular political message and want to shut it down without thinking about why the disagreement exists and how to argue in favour of their own position (often because their position is pretty indefensible and coming to terms with that requires them to reconcile some considerable cognitive dissonance). The vast majority of media does carry some manner of political message. Finding examples of truly apolitical media is quite difficult.

Revelation34 posted...

"People who play video games professionally know more about politics than actual politicians"

Quite possibly. The only expertise politicians need is knowing how to get elected and how the government works. They're not inherently more qualified than anyone else to discuss any given matter of social significance.