You eloquently expressed my thoughts. But I find the second part of your comment particularly insightful. It strikes a deeper chord worth what might motivate that reversal.
You eloquently expressed my thoughts. But I find the second part of your comment particularly insightful. It strikes a deeper chord worth what might motivate that reversal.
WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
It’s a thing I hadn’t really thought about before, but as I was writing that, I was thinking how many times I’d written similar things in the past - about heavy metal music, comic books, dungeons and dragons, violent video games…
And it struck me that that was too consistent to be coincidental - that there had to be some basic failure at work there.
And thinking sbout it more - it’s at least broadly the same dynamic as the endless loop of class- and race-based bigotry. Systems are established by which members of a particular class or race (or ethnic group or gender or sexual persuasion or…) are disadvantaged - poorer nutrition, less stable housing, poorer education, fewer opportunities, etc. - then point to the ignorance, frustration and antisocial tendencies that triggers as nominal evidence of their inherent inferiority, by which they’re rightly denied equal treatment.
I’m willing to bet that there’s a significant body of work out there on this topic