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Some quick advice for you and your two followers.

-People who "don't care about race" don't have to go around reminding everyone of that.
-All art is political, sounds like you suck at media analysis.
-Cool. Don't buy. Others will. Your attention is not more valuable.

Bye now.
I wish we could go back to the good ol' days of apolitical comics, starring characters punching Hitler in the face, or Superman telling the reader directly racism and xenophobia are un-American, or teams of people exiled just for looking and acting different.

h e r p .
Remember all those awesome, totally apolitical stories where Wonder Woman beat up misogynists? And Green Lantern was grilled for doing more to fight injustice in space than racial injustice on Earth?

Gosh, I miss those good old apolitical days.
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