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[–]Kai_Decadence 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah I've had this happen about a few weeks ago with Lindsay Ellis and her recent video on JK Rowling. I knew that she was already neck deep in the trans stuff because she's friends with Contrapoints and would sometimes gas his channel in her videos but I was able to ignore it because it was only like a 10-15 second plug. But then she did that video and now I just cannot look at her the same anymore. Don't get me wrong, I think she is a good critic of pop culture but now I just have a very murky image of her.

[–]HelloMomo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Same! I think she's a smart person in a lot of ways. Her video about Rent in particular, and how the characters in it are entitled rich kids who don't want to play by the rules of fucking society—yes, absolutely! But when it comes to this variety of entitled rich kids who don't want to play by the rules of fucking society, she seems unable to see it.

Dan Olson, also, has a lot of insightful analysis about media. He just did this video called "In Search Of A Flat Earth" about Flat Earthers, which I found very interesting, with huge parallels between in and TRAs. But he completely doesn't see it.

The reason... why they aren’t more bothered by the extreme inconsistencies and outright contradictions, by the claims that are just materially wrong, is because it gives them power over others who are bound by something as weak and flimsy as reality... They engage in wild hypocrisy as an act of domination, adhering to something demonstrably untrue out of spite, because they believe that power belongs to those with the greatest will to take it, and what greater sign of will than the ability to override truth? Their will is a hammer that they are using to beat reality itself into a shape of their choosing, a simple world where reality is exactly what it looks like through their eyes... where they are right and their enemies are silent.

[–]Kai_Decadence 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh I've heard of Dan Olson but never really watched his videos, I'll give that one a watch. :)