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I think it’s time we start having higher standards for “anti-war” media
People on this website will praise a piece of media for being anti-war and the piece of media in question will have the radical anti-war messages of “war is bad because American soldiers get traumatized in it” and “war is just senseless violence where both sides are fighting for no reason and i don’t know why it happens because no one benefits from it” and it will be about a real-life war fought by the U.S. to defend its imperial hegemony where the U.S. military killed 1 out of every 7 of the opposing country’s population.
Extremely funny to see people on this post giving shoutouts to Mash as an example of good anti-war media because the thing that pushed me to make this post was seeing someone praise Mash for “having a great antiwar message and a surprisingly diverse cast for the time” when in reality its “great antiwar message” amounts to going “war is bad because both sides are Doing A Senseless Violence” about the fucking korean war
FMA is a great example because it’s both one of my favorite animes of all time AND a piece of media that will make me think less of anyone who tries to frame its anti-war messaging as progressive. Like. It’s a work that very consistently prioritizes the feelings of the perpetrators of a genocidal war over how their actions affected the people on the receiving end of it! And it’s an inexctricable part of how the show communicates its themes, because it’s a work of art whose narrative, for better and worse, is primarily concerned with the perspective of wrongdoers over the suffering of the people wronged by them! And in many of the situations it covers this is an interesting perspective to explore, but it’s also pretty undeniable that using this framing and thematic focus to cover an imperialist war inevitably leads to a narrative that textually treats the middle-eastern-coded victims of genocide as a backdrop for the story of the european-coded imperialist soldiers that perpetrated their genocide!
MASH is about the Korean War because they wanted to point out the fuckery of the Vietnam War happening AT THE TIME but couldn’t. It was as anti-war as the networks OF THE TIME would allow
I am aware, and what it has to say about war still presents a vapid UScentric perspective even if you mentally transpose it as being about the vietnam war.
I mean. It was made in the US. For US audiences. What other county would it center on? I’m not saying you’re wrong I’m just saying that particular argument is a little silly
Do you not see how it’s silly to claim it’s antiwar when the majority of the antiwar messaging boils down to “it made the invading troops sad”?
No. Not really.
I’d have hoped in the three months since this conversation happened you’d have thought about it a little more but w/e
It’s very interesting to me that a gigantic minotaur is fucking me vigorously. I’m observing the situation as it plays out from a detached academic perspective.
