cw: culture grumbling
I called this shot almost a decade ago, but I'm still so fuckin' irritated that 'problematic media' went from being something that contextualized critical analysis, to being a dogmatic, moralizing bludgeon to terminate critical analysis
frankly a majority of the language academia uses to discuss culture should be treated like fissile nuclear material; it will poison you and everything around you if you are not careful with how you handle it
re: cw: culture grumbling
@hystericempress I am now literally weeping with pride in my little sister right now. I have been looking for a tactful way to say this for ages and you just completely nailed it. Again. <3
Yeah, I remember being fucking PROMISED, just to name one example, that "privilege" wasn't going to become the new orignal sin, it was just something people were supposed to reflect on, examine in themselves, and do their best to correct. It turned out to be a big fucking lie right there. >_<
And now we're being simultaneously told there is no such thing as cancel culture and watching a new Burned-Fur grade movement of antis pop up on our own sacred perv ground.
If they weren't the only thing holding back the far right, I would have turned my back on the far left ages and ages ago for this kind of theory-before-people bullshit.
