• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    It’s even a bad image for their intended purpose, because it evokes empathy for the person crying in handcuffs.

    I guess since the person making it and the philistine machine that produced it both have no understanding of empathy nor art, that was lost on the generators of this image.

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      You’ve missed out on the last several decades of Republican rhetoric, tears of “their enemies” is exactly what they want. They know they’re the bad guys and revel in it.

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        This isn’t like tears of their enemies though, it just evokes empathy. I haven’t cried in a long time, don’t cry often, and didn’t cry about this image. It’s just a sad image.

        It’s close to actual reality, where a lady probably previously working in a kitchen in a hairnet is sad that she’s being deported, and some villainous, stone-faced everyman tries to look tough while standing in front of a flag.

        Usually they add in some fascist elements that make it look more glorious to be a sack of shit, but they didn’t even do that with this image.

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          Yeah. It’s white, military authority literally standing on the side of the flag. They’re crying because they’re being handcuffed “probably because they’re gonna be sent back to their shithole country cuz they came here illegal.”

          Perhaps you think this is more empathetic because of the art style but this is rote, flag-hugger imagery. Except this was probably produced by bot and the poster was too lazy to run the gen more than twice.

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      It does for you. For the intended audience, it makes them cheer and jeer at the ‘stupid brown woman’ ‘finally getting her comeuppance’ for ‘daring to disrespect the flag by being an illegal’.

      They have no sympathy or empathy. They want to see PoC crying in chains as they are led off by white officers. To them, that means the system is working.

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        Seems like a bad art style to convey that message to anyone except the most hardened of fascists – which is almost a more succinct wording of my original point.

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      For them, crying is a mark of their weakness and hypocrisy. It’s laughable to them and adds to their sadistic joy.

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      Not many people with empathy are left on Xitter, I suppose.

      If you hate your mental health, you can use Nitter to read the replies to that post. Just the most sickening shit imaginable.