The reality is many people don’t have the privilege to be “apolitical”, because politics is the oppression of them by someone else.
Maybe you can keep quiet and “stay in your lane” or whatever, but that is privilege, and eventually politics might come for you, and then what?
Ed screwed this up, definitely was too blind to see how bad you look when someone directly adjacent to you gets strung out over “politics” and you just keep going with it like nothing happened.
I don’t think he deserves his career ended, but he definitely deserves this tour to sink until he can really understand and acknowledge what happened here. It’s not okay to just capitulate every time a rich person wields their power like that. We’ve seen it 1000 times, it’s how Weinstein got away with it, it’s how so much toxicity is enforced.