Popular culture must be understood as politically constructed rather than innocent

Evidence

It is therefore necessary to deconstruct the popular once and for all. There is no going back to an innocent view of what it consists of. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 278

Categorization

• XREF: Feeds the representation-of-the-Other strand of the Islamophobia toolkit: the popular sphere is not a neutral space but a site where Muslim ‘Otherness’ is actively constituted. — connects to: Entertainment’s claim to be harmless is itself the deepest ideology — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1277