in other words he's become the human safety pin. People like to attach themselves to him to show they're one of the good ones.
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SORRY BUT THAT STRIKES HULK AS EXTREMELY JUVENILE.
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Extremely juvenile in what way? For many he's just a sour note because of the political condescension associated with his name
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WHEN HULK FEELS LIKE THEY'RE THE MOST VALUABLE COMMODITIES ON THE PLANET.
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I think you're misunderstanding, in large part of me trying to oversimplify a complex cultural reaction to him.
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what I'm trying to say is that his voice has become a mouthpiece and focal point for a brand of activism that is sanitized
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bluntly, many white people gravitate towards him and use his name as a political token "artist of color that we approve of"
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he is a person who has been politicized by white liberal culture.
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And because people of color are seen as monolithic in that space his voice then supersedes those of many others.
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what's grating is thus how he is used as "activist artist of color" cuz as far as the white lib is concerned he's the only one
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WOULD ARGUE THAT'S NOT THE CASE AT ALL. IT'S JUST THAT HE'S EXTREMELY POPULAR.
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yes he's extremely popular but society as a whole treats his activism differently than say the activism of Beyoncé.
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his message is decidedly "more acceptable" on the whole from what I've seen. So it's him that's used as the go to token.
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