Recently I was seeing some people talk about the JOKER [2019] movie, and how it wasn’t actually that good. While I was reading them I genuinely felt really embarrassed and started to try to come up with reasons why it’s actually a good movie. But then i realized i never even watched Joker, I dont even like DC stuff that much, and wasn’t even the target of the argument.
I’m starting to realize I do this a lot. When people started criticizing PhilosphyTube recently (for good reason) I felt an inherent impulse to defend her before realizing I never watched her stuff anyway, and only knew her from association with other breadtubers. [Although part of that is probably because I’m trans too and it feels really bad when trans people act stupid and are seen bad].
I even do this with fictional characters. I recently watched a funny animation of the courier from Fallout NV ranting about how “Caesar” (from the same game) doesn’t understand hegel or immanant critique and for some goddamn reason a part of my brain was like “well I mean he’s not really that dumb.” Like no, I don’t have to find some reason why he’s actually smart. Who cares? Why would I ever care?
Yes liberals forcing me to constantly defend China and Russia despite some socially conservative policies I have severe issues with. I just cannot stand liberals whitewashing Ukraine’s Nazi problem and western ati-communist propaganda, basically the whole deliberate misunderstanding of the very concept of critical (very critical in the case of Russia) support.
PhilosophyTube is mostly fine, at least she isn’t nearly as bad as Natalie of ContraPoints.