I won't disagree that if he doesn't want people to judge him on his politics, he should keep them to himself. I also know that many people, especially those here, will judge his entirety based off of those views and tweets. Personally, however, I am more interested in what he has to say about games and the industry, than politics. And maybe that's wrong of me; maybe I should be more concerned about things other than games. But if you asked me if I'd rather discuss politics or games, I'd say games 100% of the time. And I like to hear what Colin has to say in that regard. That's all I'm trying to say. Hope that makes sense.
While I agree that the main focus of following games media is generally to listen to them talk about games, it's also true that those same people do bring up off topic discussions in both intentional and unintentional ways.
Now while you maybe able to think to yourself "im only here for games, nothing else matters", many other people can't. While the argument could be made that the reason you watch/listen is for the information provided it's actually more likely that you follow for the persons opinions, and not simply facts.
In that case, separating the persons beliefs from the games industry opinions they have is impossible since they are all the same thing.
I was a big fan of colins and while I disagreed with him on certain conclusions he mad regarding games it wasn't until his political opinions became more and more apparent (going independent with more freedom) that I realised I simply don't agree with him on much at all.
I can listen to Colin and think 'thats a fair point' but then I just remember the countless examples of things I really disagree with him on, especially important matters like a governments role and people like hims willingness to go along with people who historically want to treat some people worse just because they will get taxed less or his crusade against the extreme left while seemingly downplaying the right (not even extreme) sides actions and I just can't separate the two sides.
It's such a shame because I was there getting choked up watching him and gregg leaving beyond to go independent, thinking what great inspirations they were and yet now all I think is 'colin has terrible opinions and thinks himself infallible and gregg probably half the time disagrees with Colin but will never challenge him on politics so just goes along with it.'
I think I will just stop watching psilyxoxo and cwr (only shows I still watch of kf) since I'm at the stage where any interesting points are just drowned out by the negatives.
