SparkySywer said:
In the year of our lord 2024 it comes off to me as willful ignorance not to notice that media corporations, and most large corporations in general for that matter, are overtly aligning themselves with social movements that certainly can not be called right-wing. Especially when the director of this show is overtly saying that their works include activism.
and this is an argument from the year of our lord 2018
Ultimately this whole thing is just proxy culture war for which ideas are deemed profitable, no one’s really going to bat for or against the Rey movie but trying to assert how mainstream their politics are to a corporation. Should women direct movies, should activism be in movies? - aren’t even big questions to a leftist, they just are their understanding of Art. So when someone frames milquetoast as radical or even something to have an agenda about at all, it’s a frustrating signal that even the most inoffensive perspective they have is a matter of discourse
It is just idpol, it doesn’t actually matter or do anything to anyone. Corporatism then comes up because that actually means something, and is between the two a more urgent political conversation happening in that sphere. At least in this context, way more meaningful and relevant about Disney’s role, if those are the terms people want to talk about this.
But Obaid-Chinoy’s identity is her own. If someone has a problem with what she says on that, then mask off about it. I don’t think someone gets to hide behind nonpartisan, vague anti-corporation. At that point, you’re advocating for corporation to run as you see fit, not really being against it.
Leftists will personally choose to define leftism to include anti-corporatism despite knowing that it’s not the common parlance, and then act like the average person is just an idiot for using the meaning of the word that’s naturally evolved through real-life political contexts and dismiss what they’re saying out of hand.
How is the common parlance supposed to evolve if no one speaks up for it? In the past years the question of labor and monopoly, where money goes and comes from, have been very prevalent - leftists don’t want to have to justify the most basic respect for diversity when there are bigger concerns, and like I alluded to, some that people on “either side” could probably get behind.
Maybe it’s browbeating, but it’s much easier to dismiss something so petty and purposefully divisive. Women directing Star Wars should be “neat” and technically true. The mechanism that makes that a headline is ineffectual brownie farming, it’s something that ‘common parlance’ needs to move on from.
I don’t think people get passes on this sort of thing because it’s “common” or “average”. This is the incuriosity I talk about; why shouldn’t someone clinging to a broad, reactionary narrative be challenged on their terms?
Remember, what you’re claiming Anjohan did which was dangerous is claiming that the show directed by a woman who said “Every single piece of work that I have ever created has a piece of activism in it,” is going to have a political agenda.
This is not all Anjohan said
