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this post was submitted on 09 Sep 2023
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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 use fiction to explain reality. Communists uses reality to explain the fiction.
When you don't understand politics (read: can't be bothered to delve into it) it's easier to just base your opinion on easily digestible superhero movies where everything is reduced to the obviously good side being superior and benevolent while the other side is comically evil who kills babies for sport or does some other absurdly malevolent act that leaves no room for the viewer to contemplate whether they're actually bad or not. It's why people easily jump on the Slava Ukraini wagon as the western media has made Russia into some terrorist state that woke up one day and decided to invade because they felt like it, which sounds similar to a certain children's cartoon in the mind of the tweeter in this post. It's also probably one of the reasons tabloids like Radio Free Asia are so swaying because their gimmick is to make countries like the DPRK and ROC a laughing stock for the amusement and sense of superiority of the westnerner who can't be assed to research the claims these tabloids are making because they already reaffirm the preconceived biases westerners hold about those countries.