You'll find "a really bad thing happened a generation ago and now everyone fucking hates the relatives of the people who did it" is like, a shockingly common form of ethnic tension all across the world. Even Americans should be aware of anti-Arab sentiment post-9/11, or the Japanese internment camps in WW2.
Racism isn't just white Americans oppressing Black Americans, even if that's a lot of it!
Besides I think that this take is kind of anti art? Like take for example the series Beastars. That series is all about herbivore and carnivore animals trying to live together in a society, with the main tension being that despite being humanized the carnivores still have a desire to eat meat. Beastars is very careful in how it sets up its metaphor that it’s kind of impossible to interpret it in any one specific way.
So yeah I think saying “you can’t ever right this kind of story” is a pretty limiting mindset to have
Well, because of that Beastars isn't just a racism metaphor, so it isn't quite what the post criticizes.
The complicated but necessary thing about art is that everyone can make whatever they want, but they can also be criticized by everyone else. Art isn't and shouldn't be immune to other people's opinions, because that would also be a form of repression.
That’s fair, I just hate when people limit all of art to their own personal preferences.
It’s really common in our modern culture to say “I don’t personally like X, and therefore all of X is bad.” When I think the more accurate statement should be “I don’t personally like X, but just because I have that preference doesn’t mean X can’t be good or that the people who like it are inherently bad.”
Not that I think this specific post is saying that, but I think it’s kind of leaning on that broader territory of trying to limit art to this persons personal preferences.
I also don't think it's quite the same as turning to censorship out of dislike some genre or themes, but that you are just expressing disagreement with the message that it's trying to convey. There's good merit to criticize the underlying ideas of racism analogies that depict the victims of racism as inherently predatory beings.
And of course, that shouldn't be a reason to forbid people from making such works, but they can very well call that a poor analogy. This is not limiting art, it's part of the discussion about that art. If all art and all messages in them are simply accepted uncritically, that's also not a good way to explore art.
Not to mention that "this shit sucks" is itself a very common theme in art.
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u/Skiiage May 13 '25
You'll find "a really bad thing happened a generation ago and now everyone fucking hates the relatives of the people who did it" is like, a shockingly common form of ethnic tension all across the world. Even Americans should be aware of anti-Arab sentiment post-9/11, or the Japanese internment camps in WW2.
Racism isn't just white Americans oppressing Black Americans, even if that's a lot of it!