pick up that non-fiction book

"representation matters!" but you wont read or engage with non-fiction works about any demographic outside your own

this version of the post doesnt seem to be getting much traction but this is arguably the most important reason why we should be reading nonfiction in addition to fiction

notice how you're always capable of imagining a sad backstory to explain why the man is so troubled and angry but never the woman

There's no point in arguing with zionists. No point in pointing out contradictions in their arguments, or showing the facts, or explaining the real history. They don't care. Don't treat their arguments as genuine or serious because they aren't. Treat these modern day nazis the way you would any other nazi.

their talking points aren't even logical if you know the history. you'll just be stuck in a cycle arguing. arguing against their logical fallacies, defending against ad honiem attacks, manuvering around strawman arguments and racist tropes, appealing to authority or trying to debunk absurd equivocations. it is a distraction. that is the point of their propaganda. our focus is settler colonialism, siege, occupation and liberation from it. flesh is burning. there is a literal genocide or as gazans describe it: a holocaust and the international community has little to stop the flow of money or support resistance to it.

It's like watching Germans make jokes about the Gestapo

los gringos mas progres cuando un latino no les cae bien:

Stop saying “do it scared” i do everything scared I sleep scared Boy i’ll kill u

efforts towards a "positive vision of masculinity" or whatever are so funny because what these guys are trying to figure out is literally "what's a way of being a good person that's Not For Girls™"

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

So actually if you really wanted to use your analysis skills you'd realize that what people are annoyed about is the implication that there's never a story or creative work they can create that can escape people like you attempting to assign political meaning to it when they just don't want that. That in fact people's presumptions about life are not, in fact, political (at best they are cultural, which is not an inherently facet of politics). And that by you people arrogantly pushing this idea you are intruding on the fact that a lot of people use fiction as escapism from politics and insisting that "urm no actually your favourite cartoon actually has politics cause no human being is 100% unbiased" is in fact, supremely fucking annoying

In my experience people who talk about analysis the way you're talking about it are the ones who move on to harassing the creator off the internet for clout, but go off, I guess.

That's teenagers who hate the concept of shows having main characters, actually.