• @[email protected]
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    62 months ago

    I’m watching a science fiction movie and it suddenly starts focusing on black history instead.

    So I’m offended by that bait and switch, or whatever you call it.

    Is that valid?

    • @[email protected]
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      92 months ago

      Why choose “offended” as the verb here? I’m not saying I’ve never seeing an offensive movie… But what you described is an annoyance at most.

      It’s almost as if you are claiming offense to be contrarian.

        • The Quuuuuill
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          82 months ago

          So the OP described an experience of black history erasure. You chimed in with a hypothetical movie that you wouldn’t be offended by but wouldn’t enjoy, but you used the term “offended” just so you could participate and make the experience about you?

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      Let’s try our own bait and switch:

      I’m watching a science fiction show and suddenly they start focusing on American history instead.

      So I’m offended by the bait and switch, or whatever you call it.

      Is that valid?

      The answer is still no, it’s not valid to equate a movie to, oh… systematic oppression. If you didn’t like the movie, you didn’t like the movie.