I'd just laugh at this fucking dork if he wasn't a perpetrator and promoter of sexual violence and slavery. Real monsters exist, and he is one of them.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I really hope no one on this site thinks that this can’t happen

      I would wish for the same but I know it's not the case.

      In the past I've been dogmatically told that people would do exactly the same things with or without their entertainment's messaging/propaganda, no matter what, as a sort of material-deterministic absolutist statement. The example I gave in the past was the "fight clubs" that broke out after the Brad Pitt movie became popular. The dogmatic and unprovable claim was that those "fight clubs" would have appeared anyway, out of the aether, all on their own because of "material conditions."

      It just seemed like an excuse to consume trash without feeling bad about it.

      The alternative I always propose is to consume that trash while being aware of the propaganda and accepting that it's there and that it can influence people. After all, the con artist rulebook states that one of the easiest ways to spot a sucker is to find (or make) someone that believes that they can't be a sucker.