All 'left' art is like a confrontational message from the artist to a 'bad third party' priorly agreed-upon by artist and audience, and the audience's way of 'enjoying it' is just imagining this third party getting flustered https://twitter.com/marcrebillet/status/1296109871075676167

The 'message' has to be v. simple btw, because these ppl are too oversocialised to process ambiguity, so you have to take a very simple, even banal message ("consider that shit!") that's 'safe' and package it thru multiple layers of irony and sincerity to make it interesting

The message is always like 'don't be racist!' or 'normalise sex work!' or 'support trans ppl!' but now its in a funny youtube video with cgi dancing horseman, now its being shouted by a man at a rave, now its in balloon writing on a wall

You're not allowed to cognise upon the message or innovate on it or really even think abt it, its already decided-upon, so you have to be content with the novelty of 'recognising it' in these different mediums

Your reminder that 'identity politics' is the politics of 'identifying things'