“I Ain’t Reading All That; Free Palestine”
The meme enrages Israel supporters because Israel apologia depends on mountains of verbiage to spin obvious atrocities as reasonable and appropriate. At some point the kids noticed this was happening, and started dismissing all the narratives.
…Without mountains of narrative, all you’ve got is a nonstop deluge of raw video footage depicting the blatant genocidal criminality of Israel. No narrative overlay is required atop a video of a baby beheaded by Israeli military explosives. It stands on its own. You’d only need narrative to explain why the footage of the headless baby doesn’t say bad things about the side that’s dropping the bombs.
…Manipulators understand that they can use narrative to promote material agendas if they can get people to believe those narratives, and it enrages them when people handwave away the narrative and stick solely with the raw data of material reality. If you’ve based your life around trading empty narrative fluff for real material resources and gains, having your narratives dismissed can feel like holding a huge pile of currency that suddenly got devalued to zero. Of course the manipulators would be upset about this.
I agree, also often times populist parties are the ones who provide simple solutions to complicated problems which can’t be solved that easily.
Those darn populists, they don’t get complexity like the elites. Of course we have to keep bombing tents
That is not what I said
Oh did I miss something complex and nuanced? Please share! What do you find complex about the genocide? Why is “stop sending Israel weapons” an unworkable solution?
Try to reread this thread again because I still did not say a single thing about Israel
Yeah no you kinda did.
Y’all rant a fair game about nuance then act shocked and surprised when someone reminds you that context exists and you went on this anti-populist rant against the position of “bombing children is bad even if the Jews do it.”
Not to mention how modern anti-populist rhetoric is often thinly veiled classism, IE deriding “pan et circuses” as if providing food aid and cultural enrichment programs to the masses is some the fuck how a bad thing.
My comments were not about Israel or Gaza.
Again, use your context readers
You butted into this conversation that is about Israel and Gaza, to have a go at the “populist pandering narrative”
Inserting yourself into a conversation you weren’t needed in is like real-estate, location location location, doesn’t matter if you built a mansion, you decided to do that on swamp land, and now you’re drowning in muck for it.
Just because you can’t read the room doesn’t make everyone else in the room still existing and reacting in the context of the conversation that was happening before you waltzed in foul play.
Re-read the first comment of this thread. It is about the second reply in the image. This obviously belongs to the OP. I am discussing why it is bad to respond with “I ain’t reading all that” to any political statement in general.