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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm talking specifically about modern media which is very plainly obviously propaganizing itself with the agenda I laid down. It's so obvious it's hard not to notice. Older media wasn't like that; there were anti-revenge stories back in the day but most were neutral or pro, and that only changed in like the mid 20th century when, for whatever dumbass reason, Hollywood and U.S. media in general decided to do this.

You don't even usually see it in other countries, though there are outliers like Hayao Miyazaki though that's easily chalked up to WW2 and how that war completely ratfucked Japan (and given what their government did, was well-deserved and a minority of their people like him knew it ...)

Simply put, to engage in violence is to ordain yourself the oppressor,

Oh, I get it. You're just one of those types out here defending it. ๐Ÿ˜•

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I'm literally quoting a very well known, in depth discussion of the issue from Ethics of Ambiguity

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually no, what you're doing is taking a specific claim about media exploiting nonviolence and using it as propaganda, to proselytize nonviolence itself, using an old book.

If what I am saying isn't true, why would you feel the need to do that?

Also, why would it even matter how old nonviolence is? I said media et al. is using nonviolence, not that they invented it.