• I suspect half the time when people (particularly fascists) have media takes this bad they’re taking the piss a little. They know it’s a BS take but their demonstrating their fascist anti-materialism by showing they have no care for reality and just write their own version of it.

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    American History X taught me an important things about society: that you should never give Nazis imagery that could be even vaguely interpreted as cool.

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    I realize now, after 30 something years of life, that I’m incredibly privileged to have a baseline level of education that prevents me from saying shit like this about a major motion picture seen by hundreds of millions over decades.

    And these people run the planet.

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        The movie spends the first two thirds building up Ed Norton to be some kind of badass neonazi supersoldier, only for him to have a near-death experience product of his hate and his brother die for the same hate he instilled in them. Neonazis don’t care for the human aspect of the story or his redemption (as half-assed and tenuous as it was), they only care about “Ed Norton was a badass neonazi in this film til he became a pussy”

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          Wild. I actually saw that movie as a teenager and it did actually have an impact on me but the complete opposite. The lesson I took from it was be careful who you hang out with. If you choose wrong enough your life can take a scary turn.

          • There’s the difference between you and the average neonazi. You engaged with the text and got a message from it, while a neonazi either can’t or willingly won’t look any deeper than the surface appearance of superiority and masculinity in any piece of media. It’s either flattering or indicative of the oversized influence/power the “undesirables” have.

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        No the whole point is that Nazis are actually right. And even if they’re wrong, it’s on minorities to educate white supremacists.

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    imagine having a frame of reference so small that you consider this film one of the BEST of all time. pitiful

    it’s not even good. in fact, it’s actively bad