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I'm just saying some things are threats and some things aren't and our personal beliefs about ourselves can change a non-threat into a threat. "Industry Baby" is not an objective threat and no one can prove otherwise. It just shows black men in a way that is contrary to many black men's beliefs about themselves. So they attack it, the attacks are misunderstood (or understood) by others without the same belief and so we fight about it thus making a threat of something we didn't even know was a threat in the 1st place. It was a weapon that needed our unconscious participation to be effective.Blackface and "The Birth of a Nation" were obvious threats for the time because they were lies parading as truth. Anyone who takes "Industry Baby" as truth already believes or wants to believe. They will have found confirmation in anything, regardless of truth.All we really need to do is to tell the truth. Sometimes our uninvestigated beliefs start presenting themselves as truth. Then it's a battle of whose illusion is strongest.
I'm just saying some things are threats and some things aren't and our personal beliefs about ourselves can change a non-threat into a threat. "Industry Baby" is not an objective threat and no one can prove otherwise. It just shows black men in a way that is contrary to many black men's beliefs about themselves. So they attack it, the attacks are misunderstood (or understood) by others without the same belief and so we fight about it thus making a threat of something we didn't even know was a threat in the 1st place. It was a weapon that needed our unconscious participation to be effective.
Blackface and "The Birth of a Nation" were obvious threats for the time because they were lies parading as truth. Anyone who takes "Industry Baby" as truth already believes or wants to believe. They will have found confirmation in anything, regardless of truth.
All we really need to do is to tell the truth. Sometimes our uninvestigated beliefs start presenting themselves as truth. Then it's a battle of whose illusion is strongest.
