In the sociological sense, recuperation is the process by which politically radical ideas and images are twisted, co-opted, absorbed, defused, incorporated, annexed or commodified within media culture and bourgeois society, and thus become interpreted through a neutralized, innocuous or more socially conventional perspective. More broadly, it may refer to the cultural appropriation of any subversive symbols or ideas by mainstream culture.

  • Melon [she/her,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    So they're doing to Hampton what they've done for decades with MLK.

    I wonder what the narrative regarding Hampton's assassination will be. It will probably fall somewhere in "oh no the government did a bad racism" rather than acknowledging any long history of racial subjugation being their entire job. God forbid they show the FBI as irredeemable sacks of shit.

  • nicklewound [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Famous radlib Fred Hampton says Just Alot Of Cops Are Buttholes!

    JAOCAB!