The problem with your argument(s) is that you remove an important variable from the equation, which is context. Art + context = political. In a way, many people

The problem with your argument(s) is that you remove an important variable from the equation, which is context. Art + context = political. In a way, many people are falsely applying the whole 'death of the author' thing but instead to pieces of artwork. For example, it would be incredibly hard to argue that the work of HP Lovecraft wasn't intensely political. Much of his work was strongly informed by his racist beliefs (even for the era), which waned as he grew older. Few people would argue that showing the horror of what happened to Emmett Till is political nowadays, but at the time it was a heavily politicized thing as the article mentions. If you think something isn't political, then you might be lacking the context that makes it political. Some people believe including any sort of gay relationships in a tv series is political, others don't. How do you separate who is right, other than by your own judgment based on your own personal political compass?