@elleth0s like yeah the palestinian genocide doesnt only affect muslims and is also erasing palestinian christians but why are we pretending that israel doesnt justify their terrorism by saying palestinians are backwards radical extremist muslims ?
@tabsologyy I genuinely can't figure out what she's trying to achieve with this talking point like yes of course the genocide is about us why do they think isreal got away with it for so long ? Everybody thought muslims were sub humans that deserved to be bombed
I've noticed that people who experience oppression (racism, poverty, social marginalisation, harassment, etc.) often seem more capable of recognising genuinely awful traits in fictional villains, particularly when those traits are not immediately obvious to everyone else
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some audiences are perfectly comfortable romanticising a villain's actions, making excuses for their behaviour and overlooking their victims, yet become uncomfortable when someone from a marginalised background identifies those same traits without hesitation
You don't have to morally redeem a character to enjoy them. You don't either have to make them innocent to find them fascinating. And most importantly you don't have to erase or soften their reprehensible traits to justify having them as your favourite
Enjoying a morally reprehensible character doesn't automatically make you a morally reprehensible person.
But then, what happens when someone who has actually been a victim of these very behaviours also has these characters as their favourites
I mean sure, having a fictional character who is a murderer, a classist, a predator, a harasser, an assaulter or even a dictator as your favourite isn't necessarily going to influence your own morality
There's this habit of loving a character so much, whether for comfort, personal attachment or simply to avoid cognitive dissonance, that people start portraying them as morally better than they actually are
it doesn’t matter what female character is girlboss or traditional nice girl or shy timid she’ll always get criticized and people call it “overused trope“meanwhile cocky loud guy or aloof smart guy been around for ages and fandom spaces still glorify these tropes
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