Seriously, what really grinds my fucking gears is how Americans — especially American politicians — will refuse to see misery and suffering around the world as anything but in reference to #USA.
Israel-Palestine, the Rohingya crisis, the Yemeni crisis, Iranian state violence, Russia's genocide against Ukraine, Kashmir, and so on — these aren't fucking games.
Not everything revolves around your stupid, annoying, irritating elections. Learn to speak for yourselves and not in or as the tongues of your ̶c̶u̶l̶t̶ ̶l̶e̶a̶d̶e̶r̶s̶ ̶ favourite politicians. Practice universal empathy for all loss of life.
"Media frames become vehicles for representing reality as well as knowledge thereof in a meaningful and symbolic yet somewhat simplistic, stereotypical and distorted, or, so to say, neo-mythological way.
Post-truth and populist politics, but most recently the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated how simplistic yet emotionally charged narratives have away to capture people’s interest and attention, as well as affect policymaking. For instance, research done by Brookings Institution shows that in the US, “Republicans consistently underestimate risks, while Democrats consistently overestimate them” (Rothwell and Desai 2021).
It is therefore the mediated performative and standardized dramatization of socialand political issues that creates neo-myths. A neo-myth is hence a schematic news story that is mediated, received and performed in public, in accordance to media frame-defined scripts...
Here are some of the most popular contemporary stereotypical scripts for public neo-myths: a school shooting in the U.S., a refugee crisis in Greece, a breach of human rights in Russia, and so on."
"These are real-world political issues, yet they have a stereotypically recognizable form and a predictable narrative content.
They in their turn also produce predictable reactions from public and politicians.
It is as if under cue that the public becomes outraged by some events and utterances, and worried, sending their ‘thoughts and prayers’ during other events.
At certain stages of the script, politicians feel compelled, or a proper tone requires them to express their opinion, while specialists are urged to explain the contents of the issue at hand (Thunström and Noy 2019).
There is thus a certain choreography to how asocial drama is being performed and mediated in the public sphere. The characters and circumstances in these social dramas change, but the plot and the performance remain schematic and stereotypical."
@academicchatter@politicalscience This paper DEAD-ON describes America, its politicians, its media, its coverage of international crises, and EVEN how its politically charged public (especially public figures, officials, and so on) RESPOND TO CRISES.
You can then imagine just how fucking frustrating it is to watch them treat us all like cartoon characters and TV show co-protagonists/antagonists. I'm not exaggerating, there is actual discourse into this phenomenon.