The next essay for @MUGGER1955 : why I never want to read another "how wrestling explains [insert thing]" or "it's all just pro wrestling" take.
I wrote what I thought was the definitive feature arguing against this in 2016, for Pac Stan, but people continue pushing these
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The takes come in 3 varieties: -- casual "attitude era" fan thinks that vulgarity now characterizes the discourse. False: attitude era was just V Russo channeling Springer -- Trump's ties to wrestling: he has ties to lots of dumb shit -- Wrestling as promotion: just sales, bro
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This is just the laziest pop culture thing to write about, and too often people who watched wrestling from 96 to 99 and occasionally watch a VICELAND doc think they're expert enough to fart out one of these thumbsuckers
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Sometimes a friend will lean over and say..."bro, I've got one for you...how about something about how pro wrestling explains Trump and maybe the alt-right and Charlottesville?" And I will look back at them with the vacant stare of a man who neither buys nor sells and say "no"
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