its obvious to me that this whole obsession with edgy subversive art is white artists attempt to create something counterculture in a culture where they are the dominant power regardless of what their art is like due simply to them being white. whether it be a white transgender queer making art of two incestuous siblings cutting eachother sexually or a white republican making an episode of hollywood television where rhe characters do a line of coke and accidental blackface, these "edgy subject materials" are the only way they know how to define themselves or their politics from other white artists. white art is the assumption, the expectation, and thus there is not any kind of art in my opinion that a white person can make that is truly counter culture. it's the closest thing they can get to feeling like a misunderstood artist before their time. this is why their identities and politics become centered around their ~freedom~ to be this sick and twisted, because it makes them feel like their art has meaning and purpose in a culture where they are already ontop. they want to know what it feels like to have a culture that counters the mainstream, and because they haven't actually expefienced what its like to be an artist of color whos art is suppressed the only things they can bring to the table is the things THEY'VE had suppressed in the past: their own racist past, and their bizarre sexual desires they feel ashamed of. it's literally all they have.
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