Anything that people incorporate as part of their identity tends to generate the cluster of biases that we collectively label “mind-killer”. Many of these (body image; musical taste; Kirk or Picard) aren’t political issues in the mainstream, but almost all of them become political issues among interested parties; in fact, I’d say that a colloquial sense of “politics” is defined partly in terms of which issues invoke that sort of identification.
Anything that people incorporate as part of their identity tends to generate the cluster of biases that we collectively label “mind-killer”. Many of these (body image; musical taste; Kirk or Picard) aren’t political issues in the mainstream, but almost all of them become political issues among interested parties; in fact, I’d say that a colloquial sense of “politics” is defined partly in terms of which issues invoke that sort of identification.
That seems right.