Is this bait? Am I being had here? Is this going in a screenshot?
Just in case you’re serious, I’m not the person who complained about politics being present. I’m just baffled that they were getting piled on because people either think or pretend to think that Luigi isn’t a political figure from the US.
It is an insane statement to say excluding US events feeds into hyper nationalism. The domestic news cycle of the US has no effect on the lives of most people in the world. This has nothing to do with nationalism, it’s just geography. And Americans aren’t some oppressed minority that need media exposure. Not to forget that this is a meme about something everyone already heard about, not a news story about a new thing. Being reminded of US politics in random memes simply has no benefit to anyone.
It’s fine if you like seeing memes featuring US politics though. You can argue that. You don’t have to launder an opinion into an objective fact to do so.
if class warfare counts as politics then I guess microbiology could be a political subject in some circumstances. Might as well just draw the line anywhere you want to at that point. Complaining about seeing a famous executioner from recent history recycled into a brand new shitpost meme still lends itself to airing on the side of “Oh ouch ow politics, my frontal lobe, owie” seeming perspective. Showing up to comments attempting to gatekeep what is and isn’t considered “relevant” or “political” generally reflects the privileged perspectives some may have of expectations of their media curation to be handled externally rather than through one’s own navigation, filtering, subscription, etc.
Is this bait? Am I being had here? Is this going in a screenshot?
Just in case you’re serious, I’m not the person who complained about politics being present. I’m just baffled that they were getting piled on because people either think or pretend to think that Luigi isn’t a political figure from the US.
It is an insane statement to say excluding US events feeds into hyper nationalism. The domestic news cycle of the US has no effect on the lives of most people in the world. This has nothing to do with nationalism, it’s just geography. And Americans aren’t some oppressed minority that need media exposure. Not to forget that this is a meme about something everyone already heard about, not a news story about a new thing. Being reminded of US politics in random memes simply has no benefit to anyone.
It’s fine if you like seeing memes featuring US politics though. You can argue that. You don’t have to launder an opinion into an objective fact to do so.
if class warfare counts as politics then I guess microbiology could be a political subject in some circumstances. Might as well just draw the line anywhere you want to at that point. Complaining about seeing a famous executioner from recent history recycled into a brand new shitpost meme still lends itself to airing on the side of “Oh ouch ow politics, my frontal lobe, owie” seeming perspective. Showing up to comments attempting to gatekeep what is and isn’t considered “relevant” or “political” generally reflects the privileged perspectives some may have of expectations of their media curation to be handled externally rather than through one’s own navigation, filtering, subscription, etc.