The only thing I don’t like about this is the ambiguity. It is not perfectly clear (to me at least) that this isn’t a nazi saying I will do what I want vs the protest art I think (and the rest of the comment section) it is. Like it needs just an extra touch to be explicitly anti fascist and not get co-opted.
Although I see your point, I think the origin point (or at least popularization point) that I guarantee nearly all of us are mentally referencing when we read it supplies that explicit point of reference, at least in my opinion.
There are two things here that are adding to its meaning that remove the ambiguity once you are aware. I suspect your ignorance gives a few things away about your but its ok :)
I am aware of the band, but had never seen the album art, so yeah this makes sense. I was thinking along the lines of “why is this suddenly woke” types seeing this as art to endorse them and feeling bold off of it.
The only thing I don’t like about this is the ambiguity. It is not perfectly clear (to me at least) that this isn’t a nazi saying I will do what I want vs the protest art I think (and the rest of the comment section) it is. Like it needs just an extra touch to be explicitly anti fascist and not get co-opted.
Although I see your point, I think the origin point (or at least popularization point) that I guarantee nearly all of us are mentally referencing when we read it supplies that explicit point of reference, at least in my opinion.
There are two things here that are adding to its meaning that remove the ambiguity once you are aware. I suspect your ignorance gives a few things away about your but its ok :)
The raised fist image is “The Battle of Los Angeles” and was used as a cover art for one of the albums for Rage Against the Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Los_Angeles_(album)
if you lived in the late 1990’s, it was very iconic
I am aware of the band, but had never seen the album art, so yeah this makes sense. I was thinking along the lines of “why is this suddenly woke” types seeing this as art to endorse them and feeling bold off of it.
Thank you and u/[email protected] for context :)
To me the small red mark on the head is a gunshot/headshot and thus pretty clear.