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Angry White men on my 'Joker' post keep saying 'It's just a movie!,' but defend the film with reverence
'Your PhD is worthless. You're stupid! Sociology is not a science.' Proceeds to reinforce White male dominance
'You're racist and sexist!' Makes sexist & racist comments
Most say 'Joker is not an anti-hero!' & 'Stop making it political,' followed by:
'He was abused & stood up for himself!'
'He was driven to madness/ violence!'
This is 'identitarianism' (not a thing BTW)
'Working class White men are radically re-evaluating "equity"'
The other big gripe is that they think I've said all White men are bad, when this doesn't appear anywhere in what I've written. Similar comments:
'The film doesn't even mention race!'
'Stop pushing your race/feminist agenda'
And my fave: 'You're the reason Joker exists!'
'He [The Joker] is a modern radicalised leftist'
'White men BUILT the society as it is.. show a little respect' (but it's just a film, alright?)
'Aren't a large % of criminals... people who have been moulded by abuse' (not really)
'Woke Twitter just hates men in 2019'
There's around 200 comments, all by White men, and a couple by White men pretending to not be White men. They write with pseudonyms. They're a fraction of the people who've read my thread, but they're the most vocal & cannot express themselves without abusive language & threatspic.twitter.com/J5nVaWGTlm
Comment that best represents the aggrieved entitlement is 'This film is not for you!' Angry White men are incensed that I critiqued a film, a practice as old as film itself, because I point out its tropes But it's *just* a film, so we should shut up, lest we suffer their abusepic.twitter.com/Ga9ydmgbyb
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