LWDT 7: The Earth and Heavens Tremble.

[The Xenopolis Confederation]

And if you bothered to keep reading you'd notice the far more modern challenges to that view. Ones which should be obvious.

Maybe if your kid is interacting with the tv 8 hours a day, it's not what's ON the tv causing their problems with connecting to other people. Same for video games.

The inane and trite observation that someone who drinks gallons of milk constantly develops health issues does not justify a paranoid conspiracy about how milk in general is bad for your health and needs to be banned.

Here's a more in-depth study on the matter, since you are so cocksure there's literally no possible way at all whatsoever violent media can have any influence on anyone.

That study's depressing. Still, by your own logic you are saying that violent movies should be treated in a similar way to lolis.

[Liriena]

Can I just say how horrifying it is that anime has become a legitimate political topic to debate?

Nah, it's good and necessary. If anime gets to be treated like a form of art, that means it, and its fans, owe it to themselves to take a meaningful look into its politics.

[Liriena]

"Overrun with SJWs"? Sounds like you think there's a "no true anime fan" thing going on; that the only people who could have been critical of that plot element must have been brigading SJW infiltrators. Sounds kinda biased, dude.


Did he?

What Proctopeo said, and beyond that, deliberately avoiding confronting the obvious isn't an argument.

What Proctopeo said failed to actually address my question. Are you or Proctopeo actually arguing that "no true anime fan" honestly criticized the anime on those grounds, and that it was all an external assault by "SJW" brigaders who actually hate anime?

[Liriena]

So it seems that the example we've got of "SJWs infiltrating and destroying my hobbies" is actually fellow anime fans not liking the things you do for reasons you disagree with.

[Ostroeuropa]

ANN panned it hard (saying to "burn it and salt the earth" and accusing the writer of being "angry at women") and AF refused to even touch it. That isn't called "being critical". It's purely ideological.

A couple things: political critique of cultural artifacts is just as "purely ideological" as "apolitical" critique. Art is political, including anime. That you and Ostro happen to personally disagree with the arguments of that critique doesn't make it some sort of evil infiltration to destroy the things you love. And also, you're being a bit deceitful here. One reviewer in ANN panned it on those grounds. There were also two three-star reviews, one two-and-a-half-stars review, and the one-and-a-half-star review has this to say, beyond the false rape accusation thing:

The other reason I felt the need to take so much time addressing Rising of the Shield Hero's central controversy is because the rest of the show is so unforgivably boring. Naofumi is a completely uninteresting protagonist 70% of the time and a complete tool for the other 30%. He's only the most "likable" member of the cast so far because everyone else is either a paper-thin nobody or an unrepentant asshole. The fantasy world itself has no unique qualities of its own – for all I know, it may as well be the same setting as Death March to The Parallel World Rhapsody. The only true conflict in this double-length premiere, which is constantly hammered home through the episode's awful monotonous dialogue, is that Naofumi feels like a loser for being stuck as the Shield Guy. It's contrived, silly, and in no way warrants so much runtime. Shields are perfectly capable deadly weapons. People have been murdering other people with shields since the literal dawn of human civilization. Watching a stale cracker of a protagonist get dunked on for an hour because he's been assigned a role that millions of MMO players fulfill just fine every day does not a good premiere make.

Rising of the Shield Hero has only one redeeming quality, and that is its production values. Kinema Citrus still knows how to bring this world to life in vivid color, even if the overall direction is mostly lifeless, and Kevin Penkin's score is wonderful as always. I joked at the beginning of the season that Penkin's music would be the only reason I watched this show, but even that turned out to be setting the bar too high. Even if the Myne plot were completely cut out, this show would still feel like a waste of time, because it offers absolutely nothing we haven't seen done better a dozen times before. I'll be more than happy to simply buy the OST when it comes out and not waste any more time with this nonsense series.

Presenting ideological critique as fact rather than merely one lens, and pretending people who reject that lens are evil people, and that if a show fails to live up to a particular lens of critique, is ideological activism and political, and is not legitimate art discussion. You are capable of understand this difference, you simply refuse to. A culture commissariat is not a positive thing for society, what about that don't you get?

The quoted review is basically obfuscating the intent of the review, as you note, they spent "So much time" focused on one plot point, but then don't actually go into detail on the rest of it, just throw out claims about the characters and so on, which is a shallow analysis. They may as well have said;

"I spent so long on the controversy and shilling my fucked up and anti-male worldview rather than talking about the anime, because the anime is bad and sucks. The end.".

Why is he uninteresting?
How is he a tool?

The reviewer claims the guy is "Likeable" but doesn't go into how this interacts with him being an uninteresting tool. (This is because this section of the review isn't sincere. It's a lazy attempt to obfuscate political diatribes for reviewing.).

The show focuses on Naofumi being depressed as a result of PTSD. He deflects and claims it's about him being "The shield hero", but it's way, way deeper than that. He lashes out and blames his failure on his shitty tools, claims his shitty tools are why he is sad, and so on. It's only when he deals with his issues (And notably, AFTER the scene where the depression symptom of "Food losing its taste" goes away and he cries about it because e missed food) that he learns how to appreciate the tool he does have, and begin using it effectively.

"Contrived" is this reviewers ignoring of the actual plot of the story by focusing on superficial surface elements suggesting they are, as you said, "Not a real anime fan", given the depth and overanalysis they put into "OMG FALSE ACCUSATIONS!".

"Get dunked on because he's been assingned a role millions of MMO characters fulfill every day.".

That's not why he's dunked on. This is the point they hate so much. Everyone is a dick to Naofumi because he was falsely accused of raping someone and everyone treats him like its true. It's not about him being the shield hero. The characters pretend that's the case, he pretends that's the case, and nobody confronts the truth. That's the goddamn plot.

Up to and including him winning a duel, and EVERYONE there gaslighting him over it, telling him he got hit before the opponent did, and saying he lost and then taking the money he bet from him, daring him to challenge them and using his name with spite in their voice and he just goes "...nvm. I lost.".

"Even if the myne plot were cut out the show would feel like a waste of time.".

The myne plot is the plot. This SJW was so fucking triggered and it sent them off down such a rabbit hole they didn't pay attention to the fucking story. They don't make the connection between the false accusation and the rest of whats happening, because their brain shut down when it happened, so the story feels disconnected.

It's like if I up and went ballistic over Nielsons daughter getting kidnapped in taken, wrote pages and pages about sex trafficking, and then said; "and anyway this movie is shit. Nielson is just shooting loads of people for some reason, what an asshole.".

[Liriena]

A couple things: political critique of cultural artifacts is just as "purely ideological" as "apolitical" critique. Art is political, including anime. That you and Ostro happen to personally disagree with the arguments of that critique doesn't make it some sort of evil infiltration to destroy the things you love. And also, you're being a bit deceitful here. One reviewer in ANN panned it on those grounds. There were also two three-star reviews, one two-and-a-half-stars review, and the one-and-a-half-star review has this to say, beyond the false rape accusation thing:

The other reason I felt the need to take so much time addressing Rising of the Shield Hero's central controversy is because the rest of the show is so unforgivably boring. Naofumi is a completely uninteresting protagonist 70% of the time and a complete tool for the other 30%. He's only the most "likable" member of the cast so far because everyone else is either a paper-thin nobody or an unrepentant asshole. The fantasy world itself has no unique qualities of its own – for all I know, it may as well be the same setting as Death March to The Parallel World Rhapsody. The only true conflict in this double-length premiere, which is constantly hammered home through the episode's awful monotonous dialogue, is that Naofumi feels like a loser for being stuck as the Shield Guy. It's contrived, silly, and in no way warrants so much runtime. Shields are perfectly capable deadly weapons. People have been murdering other people with shields since the literal dawn of human civilization. Watching a stale cracker of a protagonist get dunked on for an hour because he's been assigned a role that millions of MMO players fulfill just fine every day does not a good premiere make.

Rising of the Shield Hero has only one redeeming quality, and that is its production values. Kinema Citrus still knows how to bring this world to life in vivid color, even if the overall direction is mostly lifeless, and Kevin Penkin's score is wonderful as always. I joked at the beginning of the season that Penkin's music would be the only reason I watched this show, but even that turned out to be setting the bar too high. Even if the Myne plot were completely cut out, this show would still feel like a waste of time, because it offers absolutely nothing we haven't seen done better a dozen times before. I'll be more than happy to simply buy the OST when it comes out and not waste any more time with this nonsense series.

Presenting ideological critique as fact rather than merely one lens, and pretending people who reject that lens are evil people, and that if a show fails to live up to a particular lens of critique, is ideological activism and political, and is not legitimate art discussion. You are capable of understand this difference, you simply refuse to. A culture commissariat is not a positive thing for society, what about that don't you get?

The quoted review is basically obfuscating the intent of the review, as you note, they spent "So much time" focused on one plot point, but then don't actually go into detail on the rest of it, just throw out claims about the characters and so on, which is a shallow analysis. They may as well have said;

"I spent so long on the controversy and shilling my fucked up and anti-male worldview rather than talking about the anime, because the anime is bad and sucks. The end.".

Why is he uninteresting?
How is he a tool?

The reviewer claims the guy is "Likeable" but doesn't go into how this interacts with him being an uninteresting tool. (This is because this section of the review isn't sincere. It's a lazy attempt to obfuscate political diatribes for reviewing.).

The show focuses on Naofumi being depressed as a result of PTSD. He deflects and claims it's about him being "The shield hero", but it's way, way deeper than that. He lashes out and blames his failure on his shitty tools, claims his shitty tools are why he is sad, and so on. It's only when he deals with his issues (And notably, AFTER the scene where the depression symptom of "Food losing its taste" goes away and he cries about it because e missed food) that he learns how to appreciate the tool he does have, and begin using it effectively.

"Contrived" is this reviewers ignoring of the actual plot of the story by focusing on superficial surface elements suggesting they are, as you said, "Not a real anime fan", given the depth and overanalysis they put into "OMG FALSE ACCUSATIONS!".

"Get dunked on because he's been assingned a role millions of MMO characters fulfill every day.".

That's not why he's dunked on. This is the point they hate so much. Everyone is a dick to Naofumi because he was falsely accused of raping someone and everyone treats him like its true. It's not about him being the shield hero. The characters pretend that's the case, he pretends that's the case, and nobody confronts the truth. That's the goddamn plot.

Up to and including him winning a duel, and EVERYONE there gaslighting him over it, telling him he got hit before the opponent did, and saying he lost and then taking the money he bet from him, daring him to challenge them and using his name with spite in their voice and he just goes "...nvm. I lost.".

"Even if the myne plot were cut out the show would feel like a waste of time.".

The myne plot is the plot. This SJW was so fucking triggered and it sent them off down such a rabbit hole they didn't pay attention to the fucking story. They don't make the connection between the false accusation and the rest of whats happening, because their brain shut down when it happened.

I get it. You disagreed with his review and you think he didn't give the show a fair shake. Congrats, you discovered subjectivity. That still doesn't answer my original question. Do you think this person is "no true anime fan" but actually a "SJW" infiltrator from the outside maliciously trying to tear down an anime you like?

[Ostroeuropa]

I get it. You disagreed with his review and you think he didn't give the show a fair shake. Congrats, you discovered subjectivity. That still doesn't answer my original question. Do you think this person is "no true anime fan" but actually a "SJW" infiltrator from the outside maliciously trying to tear down an anime you like?

His review was 90% anti-male sexist bullshit, and 10% not actually a professional review, just an "It's bad" and "The character is boring". That's not me disagreeing because he didn't give the show a fair shake, it's me disagreeing because he didn't actually write a review. If I published Das Kapital and tagged on a page at the end saying "And even if you ignore all that, this movie with bankers in it is bad. The characters are dumb and I don't like them.".

That's not a review. Do you get that? Why are you deliberately ignoring that?

Pretty much yes, they are infiltrators. They're hired for clickbait, and this toxic nonsense generates clicks.

[Cekoviu]

Can I just say how horrifying it is that anime has become a legitimate political topic to debate?

Nah, it's good and necessary. If anime gets to be treated like a form of art, that means it, and its fans, owe it to themselves to take a meaningful look into its politics.

I can't figure out a rational reason to disagree with you, but I really want to nonetheless. :/

[Proctopeo]

ANN panned it hard (saying to "burn it and salt the earth" and accusing the writer of being "angry at women") and AF refused to even touch it. That isn't called "being critical". It's purely ideological.

A couple things: political critique of cultural artifacts is just as "purely ideological" as "apolitical" critique.

Art is political, including anime.

Well, while this is true, very frequently looking for some intense political meaning turns up either absolutely nothing, or something completely rooted in the political leanings of the person doing the search.

That you and Ostro happen to personally disagree with the arguments of that critique doesn't make it some sort of evil infiltration to destroy the things you love.

Nice strawman, neither of us have said that. Try to be honest with your arguments.

And also, you're being a bit deceitful here. One reviewer in ANN panned it on those grounds. There were also two three-star reviews, one two-and-a-half-stars review, and the one-and-a-half-star review has this to say, beyond the false rape accusation thing:

The other reason I felt the need to take so much time addressing Rising of the Shield Hero's central controversy is because the rest of the show is so unforgivably boring. Naofumi is a completely uninteresting protagonist 70% of the time and a complete tool for the other 30%. He's only the most "likable" member of the cast so far because everyone else is either a paper-thin nobody or an unrepentant asshole. The fantasy world itself has no unique qualities of its own – for all I know, it may as well be the same setting as Death March to The Parallel World Rhapsody. The only true conflict in this double-length premiere, which is constantly hammered home through the episode's awful monotonous dialogue, is that Naofumi feels like a loser for being stuck as the Shield Guy. It's contrived, silly, and in no way warrants so much runtime. Shields are perfectly capable deadly weapons. People have been murdering other people with shields since the literal dawn of human civilization. Watching a stale cracker of a protagonist get dunked on for an hour because he's been assigned a role that millions of MMO players fulfill just fine every day does not a good premiere make.

Rising of the Shield Hero has only one redeeming quality, and that is its production values. Kinema Citrus still knows how to bring this world to life in vivid color, even if the overall direction is mostly lifeless, and Kevin Penkin's score is wonderful as always. I joked at the beginning of the season that Penkin's music would be the only reason I watched this show, but even that turned out to be setting the bar too high. Even if the Myne plot were completely cut out, this show would still feel like a waste of time, because it offers absolutely nothing we haven't seen done better a dozen times before. I'll be more than happy to simply buy the OST when it comes out and not waste any more time with this nonsense series.

Given that he mentions the false rape accusation later on, his two other well fleshed-out points seem to be:
1) The characters are trash. This is a fair enough point to make, and one I can't dispute or agree with since I never watched or read it. Might it be a totally BS criticism? Yeah. I just don't know the characters - and it's likely he didn't either, since he reviewed only the first episode. First impressions count, but reviewing a book by its first chapter is usually a questionable tactic.
2) That he's an idiot for not using his shield offensively. Looking at the design of the shield, it doesn't look too effective as a melee weapon, being closest to a riot shield from what I can tell of its design; the only melee purpose a riot shield serves is pushing people away, which... isn't much. If it resembled a viking shield, or a buckler, there'd be a solid argument to be made. Sure, it could break an arm, but that's not something to rely on.

What Proctopeo said, and beyond that, deliberately avoiding confronting the obvious isn't an argument.

What Proctopeo said failed to actually address my question. Are you or Proctopeo actually arguing that "no true anime fan" honestly criticized the anime on those grounds, and that it was all an external assault by "SJW" brigaders who actually hate anime?

Criticizing something for daring to use something they deny as real as a plot point does at the very least mean their criticism isn't honest; while the ANN reviewer did have other points (one of them fair, the other dubious), Anime Feminist did indeed discard it on that one single issue. They too pulled the "they must hate women!" card.

Then again, with a tagline of "Japanese pop culture through a feminist lens", I'm pretty sure Anime Feminist's "reviewers" barely watch anime. Being ideologically invested in one particular perspective tends to precede actually doing one's job correctly (t. Gawker).

So it seems that the example we've got of "SJWs infiltrating and destroying my hobbies" is actually fellow anime fans not liking the things you do for reasons you disagree with.

Ah, more strawmen. Do you have a crow problem?

I get it. You disagreed with his review and you think he didn't give the show a fair shake. Congrats, you discovered subjectivity. That still doesn't answer my original question. Do you think this person is "no true anime fan" but actually a "SJW" infiltrator from the outside maliciously trying to tear down an anime you like?

His review was 90% anti-male sexist bullshit, and 10% not actually a professional review, just an "It's bad" and "The character is boring". That's not me disagreeing because he didn't give the show a fair shake, it's me disagreeing because he didn't actually write a review. If I published Das Kapital and tagged on a page at the end saying "And even if you ignore all that, this movie with bankers in it is bad. The characters are dumb and I don't like them.".

That's not a review. Do you get that? Why are you deliberately ignoring that?

Pretty much yes, they are infiltrators. They're hired for clickbait, and this toxic nonsense generates clicks.

I have to agree here. Most of his review is indeed either criticisms leveled poorly or "how dare this chinese cartoon depict something I reject as being real! they must hate women!"

[Ostroeuropa]

So it seems that the example we've got of "SJWs infiltrating and destroying my hobbies" is actually fellow anime fans not liking the things you do for reasons you disagree with.

They're not anime fans Lir. They're activists hired by media publications to generate clickbait.

[Liriena]

I get it. You disagreed with his review and you think he didn't give the show a fair shake. Congrats, you discovered subjectivity. That still doesn't answer my original question. Do you think this person is "no true anime fan" but actually a "SJW" infiltrator from the outside maliciously trying to tear down an anime you like?

His review was 90% anti-male sexist bullshit, and 10% not actually a professional review, just an "It's bad" and "The character is boring". That's not me disagreeing because he didn't give the show a fair shake, it's me disagreeing because he didn't actually write a review. If I published Das Kapital and tagged on a page at the end saying "And even if you ignore all that, this movie with bankers in it is bad. The characters are dumb and I don't like them.".

That's not a review. Do you get that? Why are you deliberately ignoring that?

I get that you are so immensely triggered by a small handful of mediocre internet reviews taking issue with false rape accusations against a fictional male character that you interpret them as an example of SJW infiltrators rather than just... y'know... some fellow fans having views and reviewing styles you personally find abhorrent.

Pretty much yes, they are infiltrators. They're hired for clickbait, and this toxic nonsense generates clicks.

Have you got the receipts? Can you actually prove that the reviews don't actually like anime in general? That they are "outsiders" coming to poison your hobby? Do you genuinely believe that one cannot be both a "SJW" and an anime fan?

What do you even think a SJW is? Because it's beginning to look like "SJW" is just a manipulative rhetorical tool rather than an actual, honestly defined category of person. They seem to exclusively exist in your writing as a shorthand for "foreign other that we must fear and hate". It's actually beginning to give me some serious fashy vibes, to be honest. You might as well cry "cultural bolshevism" and start talking about a "stab in the back".

[Liriena]

So it seems that the example we've got of "SJWs infiltrating and destroying my hobbies" is actually fellow anime fans not liking the things you do for reasons you disagree with.

They're not anime fans Lir. They're activists hired by media publications to generate clickbait.

[citation needed], Sen. McCarthy.

[Cappuccina]

Nah, it's good and necessary. If anime gets to be treated like a form of art, that means it, and its fans, owe it to themselves to take a meaningful look into its politics.

I can't figure out a rational reason to disagree with you, but I really want to nonetheless. :/

Does everything really need to be politicized though? Can't people have something that they enjoy that isn't made into debate?

[Ostroeuropa]

Lir you're basically asking me if a true lover of big brother can like Eurasias alliance with Oceania.

I'm telling you no, they can't.

It's a totalizing ideology. They don't like anime, because they have bought in to a totalitarian worldview. They don't like anything anymore, except the ideology. That is literally the point and goal of totalitarianism. They like anime only in as far as it facilitates their worldview being imposed.

[Liriena]

I can't figure out a rational reason to disagree with you, but I really want to nonetheless. :/

Does everything really need to be politicized though? Can't people have something that they enjoy that isn't made into debate?

Who says you can't enjoy something and also be open to think about it on a deeper level, including its politics?

I love The Lord of the Rings, I enjoy watching the movies and reading Tolkien's work, and now and then I also think about Tolkien's politics and the politics of Middle Earth.

And furthermore, if other people engaging in a debate about stuff you like ruins your enjoyment, that's kind of your problem. The things you enjoy were already political long before people started to debate them, because art is always political.

[Cekoviu]

I can't figure out a rational reason to disagree with you, but I really want to nonetheless. :/

Does everything really need to be politicized though? Can't people have something that they enjoy that isn't made into debate?

Everything is, by nature, political.

[Ostroeuropa]

Does everything really need to be politicized though? Can't people have something that they enjoy that isn't made into debate?

Who says you can't enjoy something and also be open to think about it on a deeper level, including its politics?

I love The Lord of the Rings, I enjoy watching the movies and reading Tolkien's work, and now and then I also think about Tolkien's politics and the politics of Middle Earth.

And furthermore, if other people engaging in a debate about stuff you like ruins your enjoyment, that's kind of your problem. The things you enjoy were already political long before people started to debate them, because art is always political.

We have seen how this movement moves to censor things they don't like eventually.

[Liriena]

I get that you are so immensely triggered by a small handful of mediocre internet reviews taking issue with false rape accusations against a fictional male character that you interpret them as an example of SJW infiltrators rather than just... y'know... some fellow fans having views and reviewing styles you personally find abhorrent.


Have you got the receipts? Can you actually prove that the reviews don't actually like anime in general? That they are "outsiders" coming to poison your hobby? Do you genuinely believe that one cannot be both a "SJW" and an anime fan?

What do you even think a SJW is? Because it's beginning to look like "SJW" is just a manipulative rhetorical tool rather than an actual, honestly defined category of person. They seem to exclusively exist in your writing as a shorthand for "foreign other that we must fear and hate". It's actually beginning to give me some serious fashy vibes, to be honest. You might as well cry "cultural bolshevism" and start talking about a "stab in the back".

And again you come back to ignoring wider context. This is not an isolated incident, but a growing problem in our society.

If your illustrative example fails to illustrate the wider context you want to whine about, then your wider context may well be a fabrication of yours.

I think it's like joining a cult that makes you an addict to a particular repetitive behavior at the expense of everything else. An SJW is not only not an anime fan, they are a fan of nothing but their ideology. Same as a hardcore drug addict eventually gets. They'll steal from their friends, their family, and so on, to fuel the habit. The SJW is obsessed with applying a totalizing worldview and demonizing everything that falls outside of it. They are not anime fans, because they are not fans of anything anymore except the cult. That is what totalitarian ideology aspires to achieve, and in their case, does.

Stupid analogies asides... got an actual source for all that dollar-store psychopathologizing of "the SJW"? Also, bold of you to talk about how "the SJW is obsessed with applying a totalizing worldview and demonizing everything that falls outside of it" while simultaneously trying to argue that it's impossible to be critical of a plot element in an anime you liked and be an anime fan, and that if you are critical then you are actually a "SJW", a malicious totalitarian cult member/drug addict incapable of liking the same stuff you do who only exists to attack you and the things you love. That's definitely not a totalizing worldview and demonization that you're putting out there.

[Liriena]

Who says you can't enjoy something and also be open to think about it on a deeper level, including its politics?

I love The Lord of the Rings, I enjoy watching the movies and reading Tolkien's work, and now and then I also think about Tolkien's politics and the politics of Middle Earth.

And furthermore, if other people engaging in a debate about stuff you like ruins your enjoyment, that's kind of your problem. The things you enjoy were already political long before people started to debate them, because art is always political.

We have seen how this movement moves to censor things they don't like eventually.

Such as?

[Cappuccina]

Does everything really need to be politicized though? Can't people have something that they enjoy that isn't made into debate?

Everything is, by nature, political.

It is if people make it political.

[The Xenopolis Confederation]

Does everything really need to be politicized though? Can't people have something that they enjoy that isn't made into debate?

Everything is, by nature, political.

Some things are more political than others. Some things don't need to be politicized more than they are political.

[Liriena]

Lir you're basically asking me if a true lover of big brother can like Eurasias alliance with Oceania.

I'm telling you no, they can't.

It's a totalizing ideology. They don't like anime, because they have bought in to a totalitarian worldview. They don't like anything anymore, except the ideology. That is literally the point and goal of totalitarianism. They like anime only in as far as it facilitates their worldview being imposed.

One day you're gonna make a good analogy... but today ain't it.

Also, still waiting on receipts on this "they" you keep psychopathologizing from your armchair.

You claim that "they don't like anything anymore" and you still think you're talking about real human beings?

[Ostroeuropa]

And again you come back to ignoring wider context. This is not an isolated incident, but a growing problem in our society.

If your illustrative example fails to illustrate the wider context you want to whine about, then your wider context may well be a fabrication of yours.

I think it's like joining a cult that makes you an addict to a particular repetitive behavior at the expense of everything else. An SJW is not only not an anime fan, they are a fan of nothing but their ideology. Same as a hardcore drug addict eventually gets. They'll steal from their friends, their family, and so on, to fuel the habit. The SJW is obsessed with applying a totalizing worldview and demonizing everything that falls outside of it. They are not anime fans, because they are not fans of anything anymore except the cult. That is what totalitarian ideology aspires to achieve, and in their case, does.

Stupid analogies asides... got an actual source for all that dollar-store psychopathologizing of "the SJW"? Also, bold of you to talk about how "the SJW is obsessed with applying a totalizing worldview and demonizing everything that falls outside of it" while simultaneously trying to argue that it's impossible to be critical of a plot element in an anime you liked and be an anime fan, and that if you are critical then you are actually a "SJW", a malicious totalitarian cult member/drug addict incapable of liking the same stuff you do who only exists to attack you and the things you love. That's definitely not a totalizing worldview and demonization that you're putting out there.

You asked for an example, not an illustrative example, and you can continue to pretend it's a series of isolated incidents until the cows come home, but you cannot force other people to ignore reality. A gradual encroachment has occurred and escalated over the past several decades and its noticeable.

It's not a stupid analogy, but descriptive of how totalitarian ideologies operate and what they aspire to achieve in their followers.
I never argued it's impossible to be critical of a plot element in an anime I like, nor that if you are critical you are automatically an SJW. SJW = "Everyoen who isn't an SJW is evil.". You are pretending I am the same for noting "SJWs are evil", because you have bought into their Manichaean bollocks instead of recognizing that the world is not divided into two camps of people. SJWs are just one really shitty camp of people. But that doesn't mean all non-SJWs are good. I'll happily point to some of those camps and go "They're evil too". That isn't the same thing, because i'm not saying "Everyone who isn't from my camp is evil" like SJWs are.

Digibro does a good series on Shield Hero and why it goes downhill and so on, and he isn't an SJW.

[Liriena]

Everything is, by nature, political.

It is if people make it political.

No, it's political before people "make" it political. Because no creator can escape from their own conditions of production. The creation of meaning, semiosis, is a social process.

[Ostroeuropa]

It is if people make it political.

No, it's political before people "make" it political. Because no creator can escape from their own conditions of production. The creation of meaning, semiosis, is a social process.

I notice you haven't addressed the point that this doesn't make acting like a culture commissar the same thing as art discussion or criticism.

Compare Lindsey Ellis.
I like Lindsey. I don't mind her. I even like her reviews, despite the fact you might assume I dislike them.

Because she does not present a political perspective or lens on a topic as fact and insist that anyone who doesn't use that lens and only that lens to view the work "Hates women" or some shit.

STALIN SAYS THIS ART BAD, SO THIS ART BAD. GULAG WITH U, ART BANNED NOW. DISAGREEMENT EVIDENCE OF WRONGDOING. SOVIET REALISM ONLY. Said Uggo The Ogre Anime Reviewer.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12048- ... ssible-for