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InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The only thing I don’t like about this is the ambiguity. It is not perfectly clear (to me at least) that this isn’t a nazi saying I will do what I want vs the protest art I think (and the rest of the comment section) it is. Like it needs just an extra touch to be explicitly anti fascist and not get co-opted.
There are two things here that are adding to its meaning that remove the ambiguity once you are aware. I suspect your ignorance gives a few things away about your but its ok :)
The raised fist image is “The Battle of Los Angeles” and was used as a cover art for one of the albums for Rage Against the Machine en.wikipedia.org/…/The_Battle_of_Los_Angeles_(alb…
if you lived in the late 1990’s, it was very iconic
I am aware of the band, but had never seen the album art, so yeah this makes sense. I was thinking along the lines of “why is this suddenly woke” types seeing this as art to endorse them and feeling bold off of it.
Thank you and u/octopus_ink@lemmy.ml for context :)
To me the small red mark on the head is a gunshot/headshot and thus pretty clear.
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Although I see your point, I think the origin point (or at least popularization point) that I guarantee nearly all of us are mentally referencing when we read it supplies that explicit point of reference, at least in my opinion.