Well, I don't think descriptions of social inequality are in themselves socially damaging--if anything, quite the opposite. Media presents the world as socially equal and, as far as anyone can tell, always having been socially equal is, I think, far more dangerous as it obscures the massive amounts of social inequality which exist in all contemporary human societies. The problem isn't with depicting social inequality so much as depicting it as natural or acceptable.
The questions of what messages a particular audience will take from a particular text are complicated ones with few clear answers. My objective is not so much to try and create hard-and-fast distinctions which can be use to throw accusations and blame around as it to consider the issues involved as carefully and critically as possible.
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Date: 2008-07-03 09:06 pm (UTC)The questions of what messages a particular audience will take from a particular text are complicated ones with few clear answers. My objective is not so much to try and create hard-and-fast distinctions which can be use to throw accusations and blame around as it to consider the issues involved as carefully and critically as possible.