#your average online leftist is not watching banjo documentries

[m-has-a-blog]

it's hard to talk about stuff you like online, this is not a tumblr only problem but it is endemic here, because there's this idea you should ONLY engage with art you're outside the target audience for on an educational basis.

so i don't usually talk about music on here bc if i go 'hey this is one of my fav artists, she was in that smithsonian doc about black banjo players', that signifies, in most left leaning online spaces, that i am putting out my Good Person Points for other people to either one up or pick apart, and not the truth which is: i watch folk music documentaries in my spare time because i enjoy them, and then listen to the artists in the folk music documentaries

i have no real fix for this. people aren't gonna stop going 'if you don't listen to these highly specific artists you hate [insert group we are discoursing about today]' even if you listen to other, more obscure artists in the same discourse of the day group. mostly i just wish i could be enthusiastic about things without people assuming connotations or subtext i guess