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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8571912"><p>The tribalism is definitely swinging both ways. I can't speak to the Critical Drinker as I have only seen that one video, but I have seen a number of videos from youtube channels on media that seem reactionary to the other side. I also don't think works need to be apolitical. I just don't think art has to always be a proxy for our political disagreements, and that the quality shouldn't be judged on its politics (and I am concerned that art is overly political now, that it is used to divide people politically and that it is contributing a culture where politics is becoming impossible because people have so demonized one another). When it is relevant, absolutely a movie should be political. Malcolm X is a political film and it would make very little sense to take the politics out of that movie. And the film is enhanced by the politics (even someone doesn't agree with the politics I think they have to at least acknowledge it contributes to the overall effect and  meaning of the movie). Dirty Harry is a political film. And the political issues it grapples with, enhances it. But I don't think star wars needs to be political.</p></blockquote><p></p>