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[mewbirb]

I was thinking about why Star vs. The Forces of Evil is so great, and basically it's because it initially showed the monsters as evil and made it look like Eclipsa was gonna be a big vilain, and then they turned out to actually be really nice people who get treated like shit for being different, and the racist Mewmans are mostly only that way because they think they're supposed to be, and their actions have consequences that hurt everyone.  And nobody we've seen so far is shown to be irredeemable (except Toffee because he knows full well how evil he is and he likes it).

You'd think with the whole "fiction affects reality" craze, someone would've figured out how to learn from this fiction that it's dangerous to assume someone is bad just because other people talk about them with scary words.

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[sodium_amytal]

Well there's a ton of antis in the Devilman Crybaby fandom, despite the show basically being a takedown of anti-like thought. So much of the media antis flock to has a core message of "don't be an asshole/judging people without knowing them is bad" and yet...

But the root of the problem is that antis don't really believe the "fiction affects reality" angle. They just use it as a bludgeon against ships they don't like. If you look at the whole of anti activity in a fandom, you'll find whichever ship(s) they're against, there's a "better" ship they like that they wish people would ship instead. And in smaller fandoms, it can even be a personal vendetta against an individual content creator (can confirm from personal experience). All the holier-than-thou reasons they offer to justify their bullying is just a nice coat of paint on, well, bullying and libel. They know that people listen to SJ talk, so they use those terms, logic, and reasoning so people will listen to their dumb arguments which, back in my day, were just "ewwww this ship/yaoi is so gross!"