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ellis123 posted...

How exactly is the reason + the dogwhistle a "good concise summation"? It's just the first one, the latter is just the same old garbage that falls apart upon any scrutiny. No one ever whines about "hamfisted" when it's something they like, no one ever decides that bad writing is something else whenever it involves non-women/minorities. It's only when it's garbage Republican BS that suddenly it goes from "bad X" to "too political", and the actual quality of the work/its overtness/etc. never comes into play. At no point is it anything more than skinhead nonsense.

For instance, in that crappy Cats movie they overtly did a real heavy amount of gay erasure. Like, they removed all non-hetero romances and even turned one of the lesbians into a villain of sorts. It was "political" from top to bottom in the same way that including a non-straight character is magically political: it isn't, but a bunch of people really hate it when marginalized people aren't being repressed. Now try and find a single person ever calling that crappy movie political. It's crappily written, it's hamfisted: show me that one person doing exactly what the dogwhistle promises and starts complaining about its political messaging.

Youre conflating two different things, is the point. People criticizing the stuff in the latter bit actually levy those criticisms, and they may or may not mention political as part of them, but they get lumped in with the first group exactly the way youre doing here.

As for your example, Id have to know a single person whod even heard of much less watched a Cats movie (or the musical for that matter) first, and I dont.