• spujb@lemmy.cafe
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    7 months ago

    Under a cartoon representation of a quite standard-looking Palestine supporting protester.

    “The cartoon isn’t about those who support Palestine.”

    What textual or external evidence do you have for this? Genuinely what could I be missing here lmao? Open to correction but this sounds like you are gaslighting urself?

    Edit to be very specific: The comic depicts what might be called a “generic” protester. And then puts words in their mouth that are not often heard: “I’m busy.” Not a popular slogan or anything.

    There’s one protester, one speech bubble. That’s 100% of the protesters on the page, where the uncommon speech is inserted into the generic. Hence my interperetation that the artist is representing all pro-Palestine protesters here as single issue obstructionist bad actors, which is an obvious non-truth

    It’s kind of a visual strawman, in other words.