Quote Originally Posted by Melichoir View Post
Thats what people mean by keep your politics out of games. They dont want to have debates over nuanced specific contemporary politics in a piece of fantasy escapism because we get enough of that in real life as it were, not everything needs to be about contemporary politics, and I would say 90% of hte time when it's done in media its a ham fisted one sided propagandist mess that fails to actually fairly or truthfully address issues. This is double so when the media just slaps you in teh face with it bluntly and disparages you overtly for having a viewpoint that may not be universal or has nuance.
I agree with your earlier points (although I still hold that a great deal of literature that has survided to our days is itself political: Richard III, Don Juan, the Divine Comedy, the Aeneid... the only thing is we now lack the political CONTEXT of them), however I will draw from my experience (which, I know, anecdotal evidence) that when people say "keep your politics out of my game" it tends to be towards inclusionary measures such as "We have added a completely optional female main character", "We added a trans character, who only outright says they're trans via a specific dialogue tree", "there are now same-sex couples in the game" and are met with the reactionary "keep your politics out of my games".

I won't contest that there ARE ham-fisted ways to do so (the ending of BlackKklansman, or the entirety of Birth of a Nation, and Citizen Kane wasn't shy about the titular character being a stand-in for Senator McCarthy), but (and I'm not saying that YOU'VE said this, but others, including the poster I was originally responding to, certainly have), but when "keeping politics out of games" is used as a stand-in for "keep people that I don't want to see in my games out of them" THEN I have a problem.