#dean!michael calling a syrian asylum seeker a coward 😭 asdklfjkla what a show!

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@ardentpoop god yeah like thinking on the perpetual suspicion/monitoring/surveillance present re: sam over s1-5 (and tbh. never goes away, with each season it just becomes a new issue standing in for what makes him untrustworthy. all different metaphors for the same thing!). sam can never win! you will always be marked as a threat! ('it's not what you're doing/'it's what you are') like, his arc is a tragedy on assimilation!! (it's too real rip)

(^ from 7.03. but then now im also thinking on. how they had a literal suicide bomber metaphor with the angels in s9 lol.)

(^ from 5.02. the way this show also pathologises sam and his anger as something inherently monstrous. the view of the racialised Other as inherently ruthless/backwards/savage in their violence, compared to the righteous violence of state brutality) also the show's nuclear family standing in for an authoritarian state (that justifies its nature by perpetual war -> the dogma at the time: there will always be terrorists, America will forever be at war). sam as the scapegoat, a metaphorical muslim american stand-in, whose freedom gets sacrificed at the altar for the greater good.

the BMOL arc is sooo annoying bc it taps into the show's central hypocrisy! critiquing institutions but refusing to examine hunting as essentially authoritarian. like the classic american vein of fascist justice masked as community mob violence, while deriding government control lol. and the cole arc is also incredibly annoying! but that episode also makes those War on Terror = monstrosity associations explicit!! the layers!! oh no the soldier picked up a monster :( while fighting an imperialist war in an arab nation :( and his PTSD/domestic violence gets sublimated into a literal pathogen (tying in with the show's revised stupid MoC lore being really about military/cop apologia. the just soldier descends into monstrosity, for the sake of protecting a brother from the influence of monstrosity)