great piece by @thitchner on why there's nothign wrong with using pop culture references to understnad politics:http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/a-defense-of-political-pop-culture-references …
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Replying to @nberlat
radicals claiming to speak for the ppl by scolding folks for having seen Harry Potter...I guess the Frankfurt School is hard to shake.
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Replying to @nberlat
Tom's point about how denigrating pop culture references is a way of marking oneself as adult/serious is on point too.
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Replying to @lirael_abhorsen
fwiw, I think I know why the left is harping on this.
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Replying to @nberlat
antipathy to pop culture discussion on left is tied up with antipathy to identity politics.
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that's how it works in FDB's writing, for example. Talking about racism against Beyoncé is talking about rich people's problems...
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discussion of racism/sexism in pop culture is figured as symbolic/unimportant, as opposed to real class struggle.
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so you get to a point where any discussion of pop culture seen as bad/liberal in itself.
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Like I said, there's a faction on the Left who see any activity not directly related to class struggle as energy wasted
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