Have you ever seen a media critique that was so dumb, you wondered if the people who made it actually knew anything about the media they were critiquing?
Here's a couple:
"Batman is a privileged white billionaire who beats up the poor and disenfranchised!"Batman fights
supervillains. The supervillains are, to my knowledge, all white and independently wealthy. The only non-supervillains Batman fights are mafia bosses. No, focusing on social welfare programs would not stop the
literal supervillains that terrorize Gotham because they're all motivated by their own particular brand of psychopathy, not money.
Furthermore, being rich is not a huge part of Batman's character. His family fortune basically serves as an explanation for why he has seemingly unlimited resources at his disposal. It's his equivalent of the treasure of Monte Cristo. It enables the plot. Iron Man is a rich guy superhero. Batman is a superhero who happens to be rich.
"Fantasy RPGs are colonialist"Every fantasy RPG I'm aware of has portrayed the player(s)/playable races as the indigenous peoples of their lands and the evil monsters as invaders. Even more ironically, I think this whole conversation was sparked by the Warcraft orcs, but the Warcraft orcs are literal settler-colonists. The story of Warcraft is that the orcs invaded the native lands of the humans, elves and dwarves from their homeworld of Draenor and started stealing their land and enslaving them, but were eventually defeated and accidentally blew up Draenor. Then the remaining orcs were all thrown into interment camps and eventually used for slave prison labor. But then they broke out (and actually they weren't really evil, they were just really high on demon blood) and sailed West to the continent of Kalimdor where they settled a new homeland in Durotar… and proceeded to essentially declare a Manifest Destiny on the sacred forest of the indigenous Night Elves living there. In fact, the orcs slow settler-colonialist invasion and resource extraction in Ashenvale is the source of the "Orc x Night Elf" porn meme that has its own thread on this very board!
"Star Trek is fascist/colonialist/blahblahblah and the deconstruction of the Federation in nuTrek is good."The Federation is supposed to be aspirational. It's supposed to portray a hopeful future where humanity manages
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