The point is some minorities don’t have the option to avoid politics at all. Your perspective is from the privilege of someone who has yet to be directly affected by them. What you fail to understand is that there are politics that directly affect people and are their major problem - this isn’t them having the “privilege” to get involved in politics as a hobby.
There are people at the same end of the planet where that war, famine, or shit are happening, and they don’t have a choice because it directly affects them. Even in the US, ask anyone getting hunted around by ICE because of where they work and how they look. I think the comic is very clear about whom it refers to, and it is not the boogeyman you think it is who pick politics as a hobby (the hijab is a clue).
I agree that this was the message of the cartoon and that’s a valid concern that some people do not have the privilege of being apolitical.
My comment was made in reaction to some other comments in this thread which seems to take the generalized and very cynical position that anyone without a politicized outlook on life should be considered, to paraphrase, stupid, a bad person or not worth knowing. And I don’t agree with that.
The point is some minorities don’t have the option to avoid politics at all. Your perspective is from the privilege of someone who has yet to be directly affected by them. What you fail to understand is that there are politics that directly affect people and are their major problem - this isn’t them having the “privilege” to get involved in politics as a hobby.
There are people at the same end of the planet where that war, famine, or shit are happening, and they don’t have a choice because it directly affects them. Even in the US, ask anyone getting hunted around by ICE because of where they work and how they look. I think the comic is very clear about whom it refers to, and it is not the boogeyman you think it is who pick politics as a hobby (the hijab is a clue).
I agree that this was the message of the cartoon and that’s a valid concern that some people do not have the privilege of being apolitical.
My comment was made in reaction to some other comments in this thread which seems to take the generalized and very cynical position that anyone without a politicized outlook on life should be considered, to paraphrase, stupid, a bad person or not worth knowing. And I don’t agree with that.