My point there is that constantly politicizing video games (or, say, chicken sandwich joints or hobby supply stores) isn't an order coming down on high from universities. In the same vein, politicizing coffee machines, books about wizard schools or dungeons, and french fries wasn't an order coming down on high from the catholic church. Both are stupid, vapid, consumerist trends people get in to to feel they've "done their part" without actually doing anything.
In this example, the silent hill dev blocked some retarded neets on twitter. The neets feel like they've really stuck it to the man, but anyone not mentally handicapped realizes fuckall happened. They're not brainwashed college students complicit in a shadowy conspiracy to destroy the west: they're the same kind of aimless loser that torches their nikes and thinks they've made a huge statement about BLM or whatever before buying another pair of shoes. It's just retards looking for purpose in purchasing.
Games generally, and Silent Hill especially, aren't political at all, nor is buying them or playing them. Neither are shoes, nor coffee machines, nor chicken sandwiches, nor glider planes. But people who exist on this planet only to buy shit will always, always, always bring their politics in.