a lot of people mistakenly think "political" means "thing that is intentional, in your face, that is loud and you can't not notice"
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in reply to @jnnnn's post:
wonder how much the hair and eyes are a dogwhistle in this particular case
the girl is Saber from Fate, who's literally genderbent King Arthur, so doesn't seem like a dog whistle to me
There was also the reply bringing up that the character in question canonically hates burgers, which I got a kick out of
honestly even just bits of imagery like the crown and the brand logo are political
Totally, this is also a problem of differentiating between "does this have political context" and "is this About Politics™️". The artist and the person commenting on it are fundamentally not answering the same question. As always, people on Twitter talk past each other more than to each other.
yeah the way I always think about it is that if I tell someone I don't feel like talking "about politics", then they know what I mean and trying to pull some "well EVERYTHING is political" stuff would just be being annoying
Exactly! Like, for example, if I was to talk to a friend about local restaurants I've been to. There might be all sorts of political context as to why the migrations that led to different cuisines being available in a given area took place, but we're not talking About Politics.
I'd recommend looking into Althusser's idea of symptomatic reading and his writing on ideology