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the oil spill model is actually a really good example of why keeping mostly apolitical hobbies and cultural things from becoming utterly politicized is necessary https://twitter.com/deaneckles/status/1327989986575040513
for any given niche hobby, there's always some kind of latent political potential:
* political origins
* political consequences
* political beliefs of creators, manufacturers, fans, etc
* political origins
* political consequences
* political beliefs of creators, manufacturers, fans, etc
you can go on. but its also very easy for previously uncorrelated things to be linked together as part of a larger partisan identity https://phys.org/news/2020-06-political-oil-polarization-strongerand-stickier.html
ultimately, any kind of refuge -- however tenuous or uneven -- from domestic political contest and competition can erode as people synchronize their political identity with their hobbies and practices https://global.oup.com/academic/product/overdoing-democracy-9780190924195?cc=us&lang=en&
one of the tragedies of this is the sort of thing in which you make a snap judgement to ignore or shun someone *not* because of any political view they have but because, for example, they list a favorite author you've coded as politically suspect
