Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Catching Fire – A Great Tool For Teaching

Ahh, Freepers on pop culture. Naturally, its just another political weapon. The only question is if they like it or not. If so, its secretly conservative. If not, its clearly liberal propaganda.

It looks like they liked the latest in the Hunger Games movies.

Cletus.D.Yokel hasn't read the series, but sees coded racism:
:: the evil President Snow ::

All sorts of agenda and ideological bells and whistles went of on this one.

Tell me, is this “evil president” (note that Cletus did not capitalize the ‘p’ but the author did!) considerably ...ahem ...

“white as SNOW”?
Farnsworth thinks the author accidentally described Obama:
I heard that the “Hunger Games” was created as an anti-Bush analogy, but I’m not exactly sure how. Supposedly someone thought that if the “Bush Doctrine” continued, we would be staging war games for entertainment.

I think the author intended that, but I see it as a good reflection of the Obama administration. eggs on her face as an unwitting prophet.
MNDude agrees:
I thought it felt conservative in message. All the good guys were hard working anti government people living in the rural areas. The bad guys were shallow government supporting metro- sexuals living in the capital.
kidd sees China AND Obama:
Truthfully, the closest analog would be with Tianamen Square and China.

But it is far easier for anyone to make a connection to the Obama administration - with lots of government jobs and low unemployment in Washington DC, with Obamacare subsidies to Congress and staff, with Congress allowed to engage in insider trading legally.

8 comments:

  1. The first "Hunger Games" was roundly criticized by the right-o-sphere due to, well Hollywood in general, and the supposed adult themes acted out by children.

    Now, the right-o-sphere is trying to get some attention by riding on the "Catching Fire" coat tails for awhile.

    This is the definition of "reactionary" ... rightists never create anything that is generally or culturally popular, they just "react" to things created by others.

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    1. "Wife of euphgeek" is a racist troll whose vanity and ego are incredibly out of control and is butthurt because it lost an argument. It refuses to repent for its poor behavior because of its own foolish pride.

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    2. With every one of these you look more like a jackass. Let it go already.

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    3. I'm not doing this in order to be liked. I'm doing this to protect my username. I'll "let it go" when he stops using my username.

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    4. Show of hands. How many people are posting as wife of euphgeek just to bug euphgeek?

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    5. I wasn't going to, but now that you gave me the idea...

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    6. "rightists never create anything that is generally or culturally popular, they just "react" to things created by others." That's called being an armchair critic, and at that, Freepers excel.

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  2. In what universe is the left to blame for slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, and beatdowns in public libraries? As usual, "the left" is whatever Freepers want to blame for any particular news story on any given day.
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3097964/posts?page=15#15

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