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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.

Yup. Precisely.

This is functionally no different from conservatives who try to distance themselves from trump, as if they arent still cut from the same cloth at the end of the day.

You wont see any of those people complaining about something being too political when its packed to the gills with ideology and propaganda they agree with, reinforcing their patriarchal cishet normative worldview and culture, misogyny, erasure of minority struggles, etc.