There's a very strong desire to have anything with reflects the past to be subversive in one specific way which is politically useful. If something doesn't even try to do that, then it's a stolen opportunity. Narrowing how people "engage with art" to just that shows this anxiety.
I get that there's different levels to this. Really. Of course I do. And I'm not accusing the creators of bad faith, nor have once in this thread. I said the problem is that they didn't know. And they didn't know because they weren't even thinking about it.
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What I'm trying to get here is the idea of mindfulness and responsibility.
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i really think this sort of criticism needs to be further anchored in the work itself, because this sort of exegesis on the racist origins of a particular aesthetic just leads to absurd extrapolations like how narrative film descends from Birth of a Nation or some shit
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