It's always telling how much people just don't question the horrors when they're portrayed as normal. And it's not just copaganda casually getting people to cheer for their human rights violations and condemn people who weren't even doing anything wrong simply because a cop shot them for existing, you also have shit like Bluey where a kid's show literally treats having a military dad deployed in the middle east to murder brown people as normal.
There's always sympathy for people who are doing the killing, and never any for the people who are being killed.
Okay but it's also establishing that these literal cartoon dogs are having cartoon dog wars over crude cartoon oil, that cartoon dog blood is being spilled for the sake of money. That dad could have easily been depicted sitting in a military base, with no real implications of where or why. But instead the writers and artists deliberately portrayed the military dad cartoon dog as being deployed into a war zone in the middle east. And that's the part that I really think should not be normalized.
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u/yay855 22h ago
It's always telling how much people just don't question the horrors when they're portrayed as normal. And it's not just copaganda casually getting people to cheer for their human rights violations and condemn people who weren't even doing anything wrong simply because a cop shot them for existing, you also have shit like Bluey where a kid's show literally treats having a military dad deployed in the middle east to murder brown people as normal.
There's always sympathy for people who are doing the killing, and never any for the people who are being killed.