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<blockquote data-quote="BookTenTiger" data-source="post: 8571904" data-attributes="member: 6685541">I think what confuses me then is that the same folks who say they don't want politics in their pop culture (such as this YouTube guy) also critique the same pop culture through race and gender politics.It would be far more honest if their critique was something like &quot;this show's use of gender or race is too obvious, or clumsy, or offensive.&quot;Instead they try to hide behind this screen of &quot;no politics&quot; while being very political in their criticism.As [USER=85555]@Bedrockgames[/USER] has mentioned, there's a lot of tribalism in media culture these days. I would argue that critics like the Critical Drinker directly lead to tribalism. If they were more honest about the political critical lense they are viewing shows and movies through, they would be helping their fans form their own critical lenses. Instead, they present their work as &quot;apolitical&quot; and then criticize shows and movies for being &quot;political.&quot;This creates the idea that to be &quot;political&quot; is bad. And yet the Critical Drinker's critiques, when based on race and gender, are political!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BookTenTiger, post: 8571904, member: 6685541"] I think what confuses me then is that the same folks who say they don't want politics in their pop culture (such as this YouTube guy) also critique the same pop culture through race and gender politics. It would be far more honest if their critique was something like "this show's use of gender or race is too obvious, or clumsy, or offensive." Instead they try to hide behind this screen of "no politics" while being very political in their criticism. As [USER=85555]@Bedrockgames[/USER] has mentioned, there's a lot of tribalism in media culture these days. I would argue that critics like the Critical Drinker directly lead to tribalism. If they were more honest about the political critical lense they are viewing shows and movies through, they would be helping their fans form their own critical lenses. Instead, they present their work as "apolitical" and then criticize shows and movies for being "political." This creates the idea that to be "political" is bad. And yet the Critical Drinker's critiques, when based on race and gender, are political! [/QUOTE]

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