Adding to this as my thoughts have had some time to come into focus, especially in response to other opinions on this matter: what counts as political to you? What are your sincerely held beliefs about how people should be/deserve to be treated? About which voices get heard and which get silenced? It feels like a lot of the people saying…

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Whole-heartedly agree. This doesn’t need to become like. Focused on talking about politics. A set aside space for more sensitive (not quite the word I want, I think, but close enough) topics so people can engage on their own terms feels like a good middle-ground for me, personally.

What counts as politics? Christianity is political, by some standards. Does that mean you shouldn’t be allowed to express your connection to something that has a lot of deep meaning for you in your art in this space? Or does “politics” only come into play when it rubs against the status quo?

Voiced opinions can lead to (more) effective action than simply voting. The Civil Rights Movement worked not just because people voted, but because voices were made impossible to ignore.

Art has always been political and if you can’t see that, perhaps you need to look at the level of protection you have from being truly affected by what gets shoved under the label of “politics”

Art has been and will be political, and I think to completely ignore the dehumanization and terror being spread is at best callous and at worst actively aiding in that agenda.

That said, I wholly agree that there does need to be a way for people to not see this as the constant bombardment of bad news negatively affects everyone’s mental health…

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