On facebook, I'm in a group for people who like 50s/60s era of television, and recently the admin banned someone who was trying to discuss lack of diversity in tv shows of that era and racial politics. People were saying it was unfair, but the admin said this group is for a specific topic. Years back I would've seen that as harsh, but now I'm all for it. If only we done that with our hobbies once the usual suspects infiltrated.
The larger point being is that there is always some idiot who feels the need to bring in politics or some other issue into a completely unrelated hobby, and can't just let people have an escape. Recently I saw that the Twister movie was attacked for not addressing climate change, and I remember that Far Cry game got bad reviews for not addressing white supremacy.
Of course, the usual thing we hear is that "(fill in the blank) has always been political" or "it is too important". One of the reasons I rarely use reddit now is because of what happened during the "summer of love". I collect sports cards (baseball/football/hockey) and on a hockey card subreddit you had people who felt the need to have long posts about covid or vaccine misinformation along with the usual racial reckoning nonsense. Then of course they jumped all over me for asking what that has to do with hockey cards and I was told "some things are too important". I had to completely get off the Dallas Cowboys subreddit because they went off the deep end at that time.
Anyway, the mindset of these people who just can't let people enjoy something or feel that their point of view has to be brought into anything and everything even if it is some babies playing with blocks will never cease to annoy me.
It is.
This is even more dramatic than the previous comment.
Who is "they" here, btw? OP is talking about people who think that TV filled with only white men is problematic, seemingly probably just leftist normies, and you're trying to tell me that these same people want you and your family killed and raped and they think it's funny?
There's plenty of compilation videos of prominent democratic pundits saying people who don't get the shot should lose their jobs or not be admitted into hospitals. You're either being deliberately obtuse or you lived under a rock from 2020 to 2023.
U/Dialectic's point is that the same people pitching a fit that there aren't enough blacks in a 1950s TV show also oppose pretty much everything the people here stand for, and I agree with him.
I post in firearms forums on Reddit, and every once in awhile we'll get someone who drops in that has never contributed before and throws out a bunch of contrarian noise. I check their post history, and they always have the standard prepackaged Democrat platform beliefs: guns are bad, Trump is Hitler, covid was worse than the plague in the Middle Ages, whites oppress minorities in everything they do, etc.
Every. Single. Time.
And these people are a threat, because even if they have relatively "moderate" views for the left, they won't lift a finger to stop the extremists.
The problem I have with compilation videos is that its over-edited drivel filled with snippets of half thoughts. It's the reason why people think reality TV is fake. YOu grab bits and pieces of real conversation to tell the narrative you want instead of ACTUALLY looking at the full thought to understand what's actually being said.
These were the ones cheering on Antifa's lootings, as well as praising men of the past like that fucker Sherman, so no, he's not off.
sherman spit is in hell where he belongs and where all the murderous federalists who celebrate him belong as well
Pretty big jump from looting to “they want to see your children raped and murdered”
Wouldn’t they have done that already? I mean, they looted and burned cities to the ground. How would they not have taken the opportunity to rape and murder if that’s what they wanted all along?
Also…praising Sherman? Is this in the troll corners of the internet?
Look at any video on the civil war, especially CSA songs, you'll see it all of the time, and they have killed before, 40 people were killed by rioters in the "Summer of Love" only reason it's not higher is as the state doesn't yet want to have violence be wide spread.
Like the American civil war? From the 1860s?
You’re talking about people who support the confederacy? Because…I don’t see many people in leftist corners waving confederate flags…