I loved Stella Creasy reeling off her comics history. Take that, knee-jerk haters!
Enjoying watching
that panel now.
The modern idea (quite prolific in certain quarters) that all politicians are simply beneath our contempt, despite their personality or their affiliation - the idea that they're less than human (you know - the idea that they couldn't be both a politician
and someone who likes comics at the same time) is so very narrow minded and dangerous - just so ignorant. Of course, at the extreme it leads to violence against them - which is just chaos.
Quite how we get "fans" who can't handle politics being linked to the comic, but who still hark back to a mythic golden era don't seem to realize that the comic's always been anti-authoritarian.
Relentlessly bullying the comic's creators, the comic's editorial staff, the comic's current output and any fans who don't live up to some ill-defined mythic ideals, and not being able to accept any sort of counter is authoritarian in its nature.
The nature of the online system is that people with Farcebook-shaped megaphones get to create and maintain a toxic narrative that skews away from most people's experience. In response to an argument like mine they'll say "oh, so we're not allowed to criticize anything?" - but that's not what I've actually said. You could use constructive criticism, and "it's shit without Wagner" just won't cut it.
