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[–] socsa@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So your argument is that you don't believe art is, or should be an appropriate vehicle for expressing, interpreting or otherwise engaging with complex socio-political issues? Did I do a eurocentrism again?

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_American_Civil_War

Do you really need to have this conversation right now? Are you ignorant of the deeply violent and oppressive history of the British? Do we need to rehash, yet again, how European fascism thrives and replicates quickly and broadly under conditions of liberal free speech?

https://www.cia.gov/static/598a62b34629a8120fb16d68e440aa15/Director_Burns_Aspen_Security_Forum_Transcript_07202023.pdf

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

Ok that's what I thought.