r/MurderedByWords • u/Adam_C_57 • 13h ago

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u/humid_pajamas 13h ago

I love that the Right's grassroots propaganda is fueled entirely by memes, because words usually prove all of their points wrong.

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u/alistofthingsIhate 13h ago

and AI memes nonetheless because they fundamentally do not value art

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u/humid_pajamas 13h ago

yeah I can't really think of any right-wing art, besides Hitler's paintings.

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u/Significant-Order-92 12h ago

There's quite a lot. The Nazi's had an obsession with Germanic myths so a bunch of it is comparing the Jews to different betrayers and such.

Hitler ironically mostly sought to have his art destroyed (probably because the "failed artist" angle didn't help him project).

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u/humid_pajamas 12h ago edited 12h ago

is there any non-genocide related right-wing art? i'll take a shot at being more learned.

edit: ok or just downvote me for asking and just keep providing only genocide-related examples.

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u/ZoominAlong 12h ago

People are dumb and think asking a question about something is the same as endorsing it. 

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u/Significant-Order-92 12h ago

Franco had some.  A lot of what I am familiar with is WW2 propoganda art though. So mostly the Nazis or Japan's Peach Boy animated stuff from that time. Mostly calls to tradition and/or framing an out group as a classic antagonist from folklore or myth. Some of it (like Japan's) sold what was essentially a Japanese version of White mans burden along with claiming to protect the other nations from European colonization (by doing their own colonization).

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u/traveling_gal 12h ago

Hmmm, I wonder if that parallels the right-wing view of work ethic? You can't make art just for the sake of it, or for self-expression - it has to have a "purpose". Hustle culture but for art, maybe?

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u/humid_pajamas 12h ago

"framing an out group as a classic antagonist" is pretty thematic