Everything is political. There are really only two types of people: those who realize that political issues have serious effects on people's lives and need to be addressed, and ignorant "I'm neutral" idiots who are so privileged that they don't even realize that other people's problems are different from their own.

So to say "don't be political here" is something only someone from a privileged, sheltered, out of touch background can say. You must be living under a rock.