I don’t know if you realize this, but when people say things like “I don’t talk about politics” that’s just a short form of what they really mean, which is often:

I don’t want to talk about politics here.

I don’t want to talk about politics with you.

I don’t want to talk about politics right now.

I don’t want to talk about politics like that.

Surely you have to have seen the changes over the past 10-15 years in online discourse that has resulted in politics invading every available space. It used to be quite easy to avoid political conversations online. And still, a lot of people don’t come online for that and that’s okay.

They aren’t insane. They’re trying to tell you to calm down. Please take a hint and change the topic when someone says something like that.