Y’all “critical thinking” does not equal “criticism”.
I am very tired of saying positive things about characters and getting told I need to do some critical thinking (so that I’ll see the characters are actually bad). No. That’s not how that works. I already did some critical thinking and came to the conclusions that these characters are wonderful. Criticism or straight up character bashing is not more enlightened and is not how critical thinking works. “Critical thinking” is not “thinking about all the bad or problematic aspects of something.” It’s looking objectively at evidence, looking at context, recognizing and examining personal biases and assumptions, considering what assumptions and biases are being used in a given argument by other people, etc. Sometimes this process brings up criticisms, yes, but sometimes it also leads to the conclusion that something is actually good despite it being made out to be bad.
yeah it’s really annoying how people have mistaken bashing parts of a story and inciting harassment against fans who like those aspects counts as critical thinking. vitriolic hate with no sign of lenience being offered is not critical thought.
I know I’m naive but I am genuinely shocked to see someone– even on anon– in fandom spaces, which I consider broadly progressive, being openly anti semitic.
I’m gobsmacked
I know we point out a lot that fancops are inherently part of the conservative, puritanical hate machine, and the conservative puritanical hate machine is openly anti semitic.
But like.
I’m sorry.
Wow. Just wow.
I’m never going to believe again that fancops even *believe* they’re the kind ones and we’re the sick ones.
thing is it’s a very easy logical leap to make in the mind of the anti-cult-addled mind. antiship/fanpol ideology are largely based on conservative christian (evangelical protestant or fundie catholic) thought, although secularized to an extent. the same ideas (in re: sex, thought crimes) don’t really exist in jewish culture and theology, at least not to the same extent. so it’s very easy to see jews as ‘the enemy’ (which happens in progressive and leftist spaces to a disturbing degree as well)
You’re right and I hate that you’re right.
I’m so disappointed. The future was supposed to be better than this.
