Quote Originally Posted by Midareyukki View Post
Experience tells me that the people who complain that certain art forms and media are "suddenly political" are the kind that didn't have the brains to figure out what the story was telling them and then got mad when it stopped being subtle. One thing is disliking political discourse and not engaging in it, another thing is being blind. At that point I just treat it as dumbspeak for "I'm incapable of reading between the lines/understand metaphors" and move on.

Like the people who insist Akira and Ghost in the Shell aren't political whatsoever.
It's just easier for these people to dismiss what they don't like as "political". It's great because they can fit whatever they want under it without telling exactly what they mean.