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But so much media that uses a character that is against [hate, evil, whatever] using unmitigated violence to attack said hate.
So they’re just happy with the reductionist solution to the problem which is using violence to achieve their goal, skipping past the part where they were stopping a bad person and why they were bad.
the tags calling Christianity media explicitly against hate is crazy work when the Bible, in the most literal way possible, has God demand several genocidal massacres that are then carried out without question, with Saul getting punished by God for not being thorough enough in the killing of all living things in Amalek
Christianity media is very contradictory, at least if taken literally. The Gospels have a lot messages encouraging empathy to people regardless of their faith and social status, and ideas one could call “leftist”
it’s almost like it’s a bunch of different writers making shit up or something
Iirc that’s the old testament, which is part of the Torah
The New testament is all about why you should love each other and not discriminate, and the old testament is included as a reference since Christianity evolved out of Judaism?
Well, the New Testament has plenty of Jesus acting like a general dickhead, doing some pretty despicable things, and making it abundantly clear that he does not condemn any of the atrocities that God requested in the Old Testament.
Also, the status of the Old Testament very much depends on the denomination: it’s an “allegory” in Orthodox Christianity (read: when the book very clearly says that it stands for cruelty and genocide, it’s actually an elaborate metaphor for sunshine and rainbows), whereas Catholicism purportedly takes it quite seriously.
They have poor media literacy and reasoning skills. If they were smart and empathetic, they probably wouldn’t be hateful.
not exactly the case, but fascists wearing the punisher merch
Yeah, I have a hard time really caring about that particular one. With the way comics are written, there have been far too many times good old skull shooting man really was just shooting folks for shooting folks. They aren’t missing the point (because it wasn’t always there) like some make it out to be. As you said, not exactly the case.
I still know it’s a person to avoid when I see it on a shirt or truck’s back window, though. It IS a good indicator for that.
Its because people predisposed to hateful ideologies have poor media literacy. Thats how they can tell you that X thing is ACTUALLY more in line with their hate; they simply dont understand the material
Orson Scott Card always blows my mind
For real. His books were fundamental to building my mindset of acceptance and tolerance when I was growing up. I don’t know how he internally justifies his beliefs.
