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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Okay, long story short: I know how hard-left this sub is, and I'm pretty much to the left myself. I can't stand crooked law enforcement. I fiercely support Black Lives, and I think we need reform badly.

But I happen to enjoy some movies/shows/games that have police characters.

And I'm getting beyond fed up with seeing a certain movie (Zootopia) that impacted me so much get attacked from the left in this manner. Basically, I don't agree with how some in the hard left keep holding it up as "cop propaganda" or "fascist", which it isn't, and people accusing it of "getting racial allegories wrong" when in reality, the movie is an allegory for prejudice as a whole.

Like, I don't find crap like this funny. I find it infuriating. Because it's not true. https://i.redd.it/0qy9v4on7gs31.jpg Some hard leftists accuse the film of missing the mark because the "predators" evolved from eating prey mammals to eating fish and bugs. That's not meant to symbolize anything in real life, it's just something that happened with those animals in a kids' movie. It doesn't clash with the movie's messaging at all. It's not "police apologism" because the police department is depicted as inept in many ways, and the story contains a moral against unfair profiling. Now for some reason, the “NP” link option isn’t working, but I discussed this before in BreadTube and CompleteAnarchy. I’m asking you how you feel about this because I once encountered a thread in this sub mocking Judy Hopps, doing the whole “ACAB” thing, and I was legit upset by it. If you think I’m some kind of idiot, weirdo or loser for getting so emotional about a game aimed at gamers that’s part of a company that’s your right. But people have been sharing “ Judy's’s a pig, smash the state” memes in the Zootopia sub. And as someone who can’t watch certain scenes in the movie without crying my eyes out, they really bothered me and I didn’t think they were fair at all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's the bunny cop post from the old sub. bunny-cop

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

FUCK and there I go effortposting a reply. Gdi the lore goes deep here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It sucks to have people talk shit about something you like. There was a (long) time in my life where I would stop liking any music if someone said something negative about it, and it really bummed me out.

I also like stuff that has cops in it (e.g. Brooklyn 99), but I also acknowledge that it paints cops in a positive light. Some stuff is more obvious copaganda than others, but the common problematic element is showing cops as essentially good, with any bad being fixable by the cops. That doesn't reflect reality, where most people experience cops as essentially bad, with fixes being actively resisted by the cops.

The characters and stories you love aren't rendered fake and meaningless because they make being a cop look like a good thing, any more than they're rendered meaningless because Disney only produced the movie because it would make a profit. Those are aspects of the movie that you may not love, but they're just aspects.

Some folks will react to just the "cop propaganda" and ignore the rest of the movie. I think the healthiest way to handle that is to acknowledge that's an aspect, and continue loving the parts you love.

Edit: THIS IS A COPYPASTA???? GOD DAMMIT