09-11-2020, 10:55 PM
All The Tropes thread XVII
Not sure how much people here know about QAnon, but it's basically a domestic terrorist organization here in the United States, centered on various conspiracy theories. We've only mentioned it a couple times before, but these are the people behind Pizzagate, where someone killed people in a Washington DC pizza shop because of the nonexistent child sex ring ostensibly run out of the kitchens.
Much of their theories revolve around child sex and pornography happening at the highest levels of government and entertainment -- and that there's a vast conspiracy covering everyone's backs over all the sodomy going on. And, surprisingly, that Trump is the one trying to fight it, but for some reason he can't expose everyone yet, because he's the mastermind trying to take the perverts down.
The latest theory being pushed by QAnon is that Netflix is airing a child sex film called Cuties. This film aired in French cinemas, picked up a Best Director award at Sundance, and is showing on Netflix. It is a problematic movie -- it's supposed to be problematic, like Lolita. Children imitate adults, in the form of dance routines in this case -- at what point does that cross the line? An article discussing the movie says how the movie plays with tropes in intentionally problematic ways.
So now, we have a bureaucrat on All The Tropes pushing the theory that this is child porn and totally illegal, and is unwilling to even consider why we could possibly want to apply literary criticism to it. He's been radicalized by the domestic terrorist group, QAnon. Radicalized to the point that morals aren't worth discussing, that it's his way or the highway.
Not sure how much people here know about QAnon, but it's basically a domestic terrorist organization here in the United States, centered on various conspiracy theories. We've only mentioned it a couple times before, but these are the people behind Pizzagate, where someone killed people in a Washington DC pizza shop because of the nonexistent child sex ring ostensibly run out of the kitchens.
Much of their theories revolve around child sex and pornography happening at the highest levels of government and entertainment -- and that there's a vast conspiracy covering everyone's backs over all the sodomy going on. And, surprisingly, that Trump is the one trying to fight it, but for some reason he can't expose everyone yet, because he's the mastermind trying to take the perverts down.
The latest theory being pushed by QAnon is that Netflix is airing a child sex film called Cuties. This film aired in French cinemas, picked up a Best Director award at Sundance, and is showing on Netflix. It is a problematic movie -- it's supposed to be problematic, like Lolita. Children imitate adults, in the form of dance routines in this case -- at what point does that cross the line? An article discussing the movie says how the movie plays with tropes in intentionally problematic ways.
So now, we have a bureaucrat on All The Tropes pushing the theory that this is child porn and totally illegal, and is unwilling to even consider why we could possibly want to apply literary criticism to it. He's been radicalized by the domestic terrorist group, QAnon. Radicalized to the point that morals aren't worth discussing, that it's his way or the highway.