I just don't get people who say X-Men wasn't "woke" until recently. It never even tried very hard to hide the metaphors...
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"keep your politics out of my x"
My scrote, x is political because it tells a perspective. You want no politics? Go watch a kids show on PBS.
I mean, even those are political at times. There's a famous segment from an old episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood where Mr. Rogers washed the feet of his black mailman. That was intended as a pro-civil rights message; Fred Rogers wanted to communicate to the kids watching that nobody is superior to anybody else and we should all serve each other.
Politics is a natural part of art, because art is about communicating our perspectives and politics are born from perspectives. Asking art to not be political is asking art to not communicate, which is basically asking art to not be art.