My personal favorite in the whole extended thread (apologies archive can only capture so much) is someone legitimately trying to argue that Harry Potter is a right-wing work because he didn't dismantle the magical government in favor of a magical communist utopia.
I guess they missed the part where it's made clear that this "magical government" is actually operating as an arm of the regular British government. It wasn't "the government" that Voldemort took over, it was the Ministry of Magic. It's like watermelons seizing the Environment Ministry. Oh, wait ...
Dragged Across Concrete has "right wing" characters that are humanized and sympathetic but isnt a "right wing" movie by a long shot. In fact I was disappointed in how not right wing it was. Still a good movie.
These people are totally ideologically posessed if they think that is an example.
Children are armed with weapons and taught how to use them. The main character forms a militia and is unfairly maligned by media controlled by the government.
Yeah actually I always thought that. All they have to do is say one specific word and it kills someone. Or others and it is a magical torture device. The wand is basically a gun on steroids that EVERYONE has almost.
To be fair, if we use the purist definition of left-vs-right as applied to culture war tactics, destroying tradition and destabilizing society in constant revolution vs. upholding order, preserving the status quo, and basically NOT doing those destructive things they embrace as leftists, then they're absolutely right.
But that runs contrary to the fact that they use "right-wing" as an insult, so it's of course meaningless as a definition. It's like listing off all the positive traits of culture and calling them examples of White Supremacy - then trying to say white supremacy is a bad thing. Or comparing Jordan Peterson to Red Skull.
Either way they make themselves look terrible. The average person would see their movie list and say "wow I love the right-wing now!".
They're setting up a false dichotomy. They're using it to mean "conservative" and assigning arbitrary traits to a person or thing to put it on a fictional spectrum. To them anything right of Stalin is right-wing.
Obviously Batman is not a right-wing or conservative property - it's just a movie.
(I consider the left-right paradigm to be pretty stupid, but if you follow a leftist's ideology then you can only be one or the other. There is no "center".)
My personal favorite in the whole extended thread (apologies archive can only capture so much) is someone legitimately trying to argue that Harry Potter is a right-wing work because he didn't dismantle the magical government in favor of a magical communist utopia.
I guess they missed the part where it's made clear that this "magical government" is actually operating as an arm of the regular British government. It wasn't "the government" that Voldemort took over, it was the Ministry of Magic. It's like watermelons seizing the Environment Ministry. Oh, wait ...
Wait, you thought these American SJWs would actually try and understand context??
That's asking for a lot.
It's asking a lot to assume they read it at all let alone comprehended it
Dragged Across Concrete has "right wing" characters that are humanized and sympathetic but isnt a "right wing" movie by a long shot. In fact I was disappointed in how not right wing it was. Still a good movie.
These people are totally ideologically posessed if they think that is an example.
They put Harry Potter and Back to the Future in that thread. It's insane what they will believe and somehow see everywhere.
Children are armed with weapons and taught how to use them. The main character forms a militia and is unfairly maligned by media controlled by the government.
Seems pretty right wing to me
Yeah actually I always thought that. All they have to do is say one specific word and it kills someone. Or others and it is a magical torture device. The wand is basically a gun on steroids that EVERYONE has almost.
To be fair, if we use the purist definition of left-vs-right as applied to culture war tactics, destroying tradition and destabilizing society in constant revolution vs. upholding order, preserving the status quo, and basically NOT doing those destructive things they embrace as leftists, then they're absolutely right.
But that runs contrary to the fact that they use "right-wing" as an insult, so it's of course meaningless as a definition. It's like listing off all the positive traits of culture and calling them examples of White Supremacy - then trying to say white supremacy is a bad thing. Or comparing Jordan Peterson to Red Skull.
Either way they make themselves look terrible. The average person would see their movie list and say "wow I love the right-wing now!".
I believe you're setting up a false dichotomy there.
Not setting off a left wing revolution isn't quite the same as actively maintaining a right wing power balance. It is possible to be neither.
They're setting up a false dichotomy. They're using it to mean "conservative" and assigning arbitrary traits to a person or thing to put it on a fictional spectrum. To them anything right of Stalin is right-wing.
Obviously Batman is not a right-wing or conservative property - it's just a movie.
(I consider the left-right paradigm to be pretty stupid, but if you follow a leftist's ideology then you can only be one or the other. There is no "center".)
Norm McDonald is a treasure.
The Distributist makes a good case for Pulp Fiction as a medieval Christian parable.
The Lion King