#and it degenerates into... more and more descriptions of right wing art

[emlos]

i saw a long ass twisted sister/republican misunderstanding of art post and i am the only person whos like. weirded out by this. person. their blog is full of this, and im baffled people reblog the post with their (and similarly sounding others to be fair) additions

like. you do realize 'right wingers' are people, who like everyone else have the capacity for joy and evil and art and lying and helping? like this is straight up making out a group of very real, often incredibly harmful people into something Else (something worse. parasites subhumans worse worse worse theyre below us) which takes away the responsibility and culpability of them, paradoxically. if theyre evil theyre always gonna be evil and theyre the Evil people, who are useless and basically they all should die! worthless "parasites" hell yeah! up to the wall with them! because if theyre all evil, you get to hurt them. if they are evil, no matter what you do youre always justified, and everything they do is worthless, and actually stolen from us - the good guys! we're not part of the ~evil group~ so we are the ~good group~ who are the only oens capable of Good acts. what im saying is - this is very dramatic, and a harmful mindset to have, for yourself

because theres compelling art made by right wingers, and god "the only thing right wingers create is death and suffering" is just so... do you really believe that? do you believe that idk, a random trump voter (im making an assumption that 'right winger' to this person means republican, my apologies if not) is such a twisted shadownbeing, sitting in their room and just giggling reading news reports of the crimes committed by the united states government? if you do believe it, im curious, what allows you to see other people as subhuman? where is the line? would someone who has right wing policies but votes blue a Parasite too? how about someone whos a pillar to the community, but votes for trump? what unpersons someone?

actually hold on, i went to that persons blog, and damn, theyre completely divorced from reality. either childish or american possibly both. i feel kind of bad looking at their blog, so im not gonna put them on blast. my brain has taught me that this extreme of a black white thinking is often a fear response, and - surprise here - often (not always, id say not even in most cases) this it the thing that drives the truly harmful beliefs too.

i cant overstate how i wish all 'right wingers' would change their minds! i have an idea of an utopia, of the right and correct ways to do things, leftistly and artistically, valuably. in the recent months ive figured out for myself that a better world is always possible, but its too late for the world to be good. and its crushing, but this kind of response, is not really making the world better, its just limiting your view of the world. from this post, it doesnt sound like you want 'good' art, that you appreciate the role that arts have to resisting fascist mindsets - to me it feels like youre very angry at the world for being unfair, and you didnt think about what you were actually saying

i just want to bring attention that this kind of wording it, can very quickly spiral into not seeing people as people, and it paradoxically removes the responsibility from them. my father is an anti fascist (anti communist too) right winger - because believe it or not as much as i hate him and the right, it is a system of politics, that he has adapted not because he's built evil, because he wants to hurt people, because he wants to benefit just himself (though thats a part of it too! politics as its practiced its drawing a circle labeled "us" and "them"). hes a polish catholic sexist history professor at an university, who wholeheartedly believes that gay marriage in poland is equivalent to having 'the lgbtqabsczyx' be privileged. a lot of his beliefs are ruled by fear. i really hate him, but i dont see him as subhuman. (well. not because of his politics, i just fucking hate him personally) and i guess this post has no point, im just surprised that nobody in the tags that ive seen has said anything?

what a sad way to live