Critical hypocrisy irritates me.
3 months ago
So often I see people boild down thier criticism to "a show depicted something I don't like so its bad!" While completely ignoring context. The idea tgat discussing a topic means your in favor of it is such a frustrating hypocrisy. So often a show or book presents something society at large sees as wrong as wrong, but people still insist the media is in favor of it somehow? A show features demons and it's accused of promoting devil worship, even if it depicts demons as universally evil, untrust worthy, murderous and deceitful antagonistic forces. How can you hate a peice of media that completely agrees with and promotes your view point? You say a show is procorpiration despite the main villian being a evil business man and the heros being violently anticorporate?
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"Discussing a thing means your in favor of it" criticusm and "Your only critical because you hate an idenity
group" defense both irritate me.
Though again it comes down to refusing to consider context doesn't it? Not caring what position a peice of media takes before condemning it. Not caring what the actual complaint is before deciding its sexist or racist. Judging a whole series based only on it's worst or best episode, distorting the truth. Defending a message a film promotes even when it does it unsucessfuly or inaventetly bolsters an opposing view. Condemning a performer or critic based on idenity marker rather than performance quality or sincerity of opinion.