These kinds of authority-based mic drop articles defending trash always seem to fit the same pattern.

in shehulk •  2 years ago 

https://screenrant.com/she-hulk-show-comic-accuracy-dan-slott-response

Instead of addressing actual criticism, the authority/article cherry picks a couple of different criticisms and then merges them into a strawman that no one really argued.

In this case, when people criticize She-Hulk as not comic accurate, they were not referring to fourth wall breaks or even twerking. They were referring to her being bitter and unheroic, displaying personality traits that go against the Jennifer Walters of the comics, and the show changing her origin in really stupid ways.

Neither the article nor Slott addresses those problems.

Instead he acts like people claimed that the twerking post-credits scene was out of character. It's true that a lot of people also criticized the twerking... But that had nothing to do with whether or not it was canonical. People hated the twerking because it was cringey and the CG looked like shit.

So what Slott does here is mix two different problems and fail to respond to either of them.

They take points that are argued superficially, at least. They then amplify these points beyond their actual importance and expand them to be seen as what's important. The points need to have at least grains of truth in them, this helps to discredit the people they are targeting.

The Twitter files is a great example like everyday. Target Elon, target what he is saying, target minor discrepancies, amplify it all completely out of proportion: Don't have to discuss government collusion/proxy censorship among the people we have absolute devotion to. The idea of free speech being nothing but words to them. Social constructs to be sacrificed.

To a certain degree I think this isn't totally the faults of any particular agency. It's a defense mechanism by people with common ideas, they all end up struggling for a lifeboat and the second even a barely boyant piece of flotsam comes along they all grab it and act like their salvation is at hands.

Do that enough times and those drowning people start to think they have hope. Hope they would cling to even if it meant others had to die so they could cling to it.

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