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WCDT strips 4301-4305 (6th July to 10 July 2020)
Zebediah:
You keep right on being you, Femto.
oddtail:
I mean, I think I get where you're coming from.
I read the "giant particle cannon" as a goofy joke "there's a problem. What's the most nonsensical, simple way to solve it that a person might possibly think of?", and that doesn't read to me as a satire of any socio-political movement or approach. I'm pretty sure no-one advocates the physical destruction of prisons with a cannon as a solution to systemic problems with them. And on a broader scale, I don't see stereotypical leftists, especially "SJWs", as associated with crude, physical and/or violent solutions to problems.
The only left leaning group that's associated with violent, direct action even as a stereotype is the Fox News idea of "Antifa", but I'm pretty sure that stereotype is completely different from the "SJW" stereotype, which I've seen criticised as people focused on talking (ostensibly about minor issues), lack of follow-through and a propensity for pointless outrage.
The thing is, whether those stereotypes reflect reality or not (I don't think they do), they're diametrically opposed to each other. Satirizing SJWs by having a character advocate the use of a cannon is incoherent, because it has nothing to do with the stereotype.
So even if we go full-on "death of the author" and ignore that Jeph clearly seems to be left-leaning and rather sympathetic to progressive causes, so a satire of a broad "SJW" stereotype does not really follow from the text of the comic itself.
chris73:
--- Quote from: zmeiat_joro on 06 Jul 2020, 03:21 ---In my experience, anyone who uses the acronym "SJW" is probably a neo-nazi. Or a neo-USSRarian (I just made that up, but it describes them very well).
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I don't know so I'm only guessing but I'm pretty sure neo-nazis arn't big supporters of the social welfare system (though I imagine most of them are on it) and as for the other one maybe they're not so big on capitalism either
Tova:
--- Quote from: chris73 on 06 Jul 2020, 03:14 ---Of course I may also have got this interpretation completely wrong
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Okay, sure. Just for the record:
--- Quote ---the real aim is loot, burn and pillage
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No, it's not.
--- Quote ---starts to think about physically blowing up something that doesn't physically exist
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--- Quote ---the guy in charge has no idea how money works yet decides it must be a poorly-designed system
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The fact that he doesn't know how money works doesn't make him a socialist. He's... well, let me put it this way, Jeph's very well-worn scientist caricature.
chris73:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 06 Jul 2020, 03:25 ---I mean, I think I get where you're coming from.
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Oh yeah I can definitely accept that my interpretation is probably wrong (too much watching news I guess) and the author is certainly on the left but the left label has certainly been damaged by politicians of the left that've become immensely wealthy through politics and don't seem all that different from those on the right
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