Liberals and their fucking fiction-based political analogies being passed off as insight smh.
I really dislike ATLA because it’s deeply orientalist and what’s going to break people’s brains is when, in coming generations, it’s going to get dragged for its benevolent racism and its inherent colonizer perspective.
I get that it’s kids’ fiction and all that, and that I’m taking it too seriously (heck, there’s plenty of people who will come out and defend older racist caricatures in kids’ fiction using the very same justification) but ATLA gives me the ick because it’s more representative of westerners’ preconceptions about Asian cultures than it is anything close to a representation of Asian cultures themselves. But that’s exactly why it feels so salient to westerners, I guess.
Liberals using their fiction to both label and define their political beliefs and where they stand in them is something else to add to the evidence pile against “my entertainment has zero effect on me” extraordinary claims.
Liberals and their fucking fiction-based political analogies being passed off as insight smh.
I really dislike ATLA because it’s deeply orientalist and what’s going to break people’s brains is when, in coming generations, it’s going to get dragged for its benevolent racism and its inherent colonizer perspective.
I get that it’s kids’ fiction and all that, and that I’m taking it too seriously (heck, there’s plenty of people who will come out and defend older racist caricatures in kids’ fiction using the very same justification) but ATLA gives me the ick because it’s more representative of westerners’ preconceptions about Asian cultures than it is anything close to a representation of Asian cultures themselves. But that’s exactly why it feels so salient to westerners, I guess.
Liberals using their fiction to both label and define their political beliefs and where they stand in them is something else to add to the evidence pile against “my entertainment has zero effect on me” extraordinary claims.