Ruin Explorer
Legend
Yeah totally fair lol I'm not sure I'm fully on-board with them either!I think some of those observations are more specific than I would want to get onboard with, without some more rigorous study behind it. But, I do think the general point that critical analysis, especially critical analysis of media, is a blind spot in many people’s education. It can also just be hard to accept critique of something one is emotionally invested in.
I've never entirely got the "emotionally invested" thing though, I have to admit. Like, I kind of like it when a product/show/etc. I'm invested in gets critiqued, and I sort of always have. I guess I just don't take it personally when someone points out that Tintin is racist as hell at times, say.
Sometimes that does happen.I also detect (sometimes) an undercurrent of smug superiority in these discussions, as in, "Thank goodness we're so much better people than those monsters from before we all became enlightened", as if our views weren't shaped by our experiences and environment as much as theirs were.
But also, like with people taking mild requests as deadly insults to their moral character, there's a hell of a lot of projection on the part of the people perceiving smugness. Particularly re: the assertion you're making that people believe our own views aren't shaped by the environment. Obviously they are. Most of us (including me) going to burn in future readings of our society for not being vegetarians or at least severely reducing meat consumption, for example.
I think the issue tends to be most pronounced when something is retrograde even compared to the environment of the era.
He literally said they did in the text you quoted. Like immediately above where you ask this, in your own post, he answers that. So why are you asking that?Have they actually used that language to describe said harm to you ?