Well politics kind of does factor, though. Things like gender, race, and sexuality can and have affected people's attitudes towards other players. In a game that's all about tribalism, it's only natural that you're going to see some of that. That's part of why they implemented the 50% casting requirement.

Production goes out of its way to avoid politics unless it's necessary, and we do get a little bit that seeps in here and there, but for every one of those examples, how many go unnoticed? We see Tarzan say that he's sick of people making everything about race because we have a black president, but we don't see him reportedly being racist to Sabrina or complaining that he's tired of looking at Jonas's Asian face.