I do agree that people obsess over it to the point where the conversation becomes an annoyance to some. But I also think it’s important to understand the things like this that divide “tribes” when society seems to be getting more tribalistic.

Do you want to understand?

Or is saying "I do not understand" a way of saying "I do understand, I just disagree that people are interested in it" ?

I ask both questions, often in different orders when I see such a statement. Most of the time the user does not answer me, but when they do it's clear that they just disagree with others. This leads me to think the question "i do not understand" is dishonest. I'd love and am still open to be corrected though.

I do not understand these neo-tribalistic people.

It's 21st century, a man flew to space, set foot on the moon, and there is a global communist domination coming in a decade, or so, and these people can't care about something other than burritos.

It's so dumb.