On facebook, I'm in a group for people who like 50s/60s era of television, and recently the admin banned someone who was trying to discuss lack of diversity in tv shows of that era and racial politics. People were saying it was unfair, but the admin said this group is for a specific topic. Years back I would've seen that as harsh, but now I'm all for it. If only we done that with our hobbies once the usual suspects infiltrated.
The larger point being is that there is always some idiot who feels the need to bring in politics or some other issue into a completely unrelated hobby, and can't just let people have an escape. Recently I saw that the Twister movie was attacked for not addressing climate change, and I remember that Far Cry game got bad reviews for not addressing white supremacy.
Of course, the usual thing we hear is that "(fill in the blank) has always been political" or "it is too important". One of the reasons I rarely use reddit now is because of what happened during the "summer of love". I collect sports cards (baseball/football/hockey) and on a hockey card subreddit you had people who felt the need to have long posts about covid or vaccine misinformation along with the usual racial reckoning nonsense. Then of course they jumped all over me for asking what that has to do with hockey cards and I was told "some things are too important". I had to completely get off the Dallas Cowboys subreddit because they went off the deep end at that time.
Anyway, the mindset of these people who just can't let people enjoy something or feel that their point of view has to be brought into anything and everything even if it is some babies playing with blocks will never cease to annoy me.
They can't differentiate between fantasy and reality. You look at their political beliefs just on an aesthetic level and it's the corniest, most juvenile power fantasy, wherein they see themselves as a plucky group of rebels fighting against some great evil. Of course in reality they're just useful idiots for the regime, but the line between fantasy and reality must remain blurred or else their Jenga tower of delusions will come crashing down.
Leftist activism is a big LARP, the whole ritual of walking around with signs and chanting slogans is akin to a cargo cult since they took the political theater of the civil rights era at face-value so now they think magic marches and incantations will bring about change. And when the utopia consistently evades them, they get angrier and angrier, assuming that the problem must be that we're just not performing the sacred rituals with enough enthusiasm.
So if you refuse to participate in the sacred rituals, you're angering the gods, and since their politics is pop-culture, they see pop-culture as politics.