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Ian Boudreau

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Yeah, this seems really bad to me too. A character having a particular flaw or predilection for violence means the book or film must be condoning that behavior. Seems to me to be what you get when the primary forms of mass communication are advertising and propaganda.

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Midnight Platypus's avatar Midnight Platypus @midnightplat.bsky.social
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Mr. Rogers and LeVar Burton did good childrens show work showing the diff between fiction and reality; but not just Stephen King, but Charles Dickens also had run ins with readers wishing to hold them to account for characters misfortunes, it's always happened to actors to some degree as well 1/

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