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djsherriff-responses · 11 months ago

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Instead of making insensitive Nazi jokes about a Jewish person's work regarding how Steven Universe treats redemption/forgiveness, we should've instead talked about the late stage capitalist hellscape the show exists in where it's an example of people (Steven) wanting to do good and make a difference but just unable to actually have the mental strength to both dismantle the corrupt system in place and live with the consequences of that , of having to be responsible of ensuring a better system is put in place. Both the ending of Steven Universe and Steven Universe future is that some people become too mentally exhausted and instead try to compromise with the system in place to try fixing themselves

But I don't think anyone's ready for that discussion

#ask me #su critical #su criticism #I still think the diamonds and the way the show handled some stuff was bad #But it makes a lot more sense if you look at Steven and his relationship with the diamonds through the current political landscape #Instead of using Hitler as a gotcha about how kids should murder their problems #Steven's family situation is far more similar to the British royal family and USA presidents than anything else #I think Sugar wanted a show about kindness but it unintentionally showed how awful late stage capitalism and it's system are #And I think it made people feel uncomfortable with how they'd behave similarly in Steven's position #I haven't engaged with the show after season 3/4 besides spoilers so my criticism is flawed obviously #But wanted to throw my two cents here #Tw Nazis #tw anti semitism #Tw Hitler

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