I don't know the details but the timeline seems to indicate it is thoroughly fucked up and cancel worthy and that is good enough for me so I guess I am very definitely not into Neil Gaiman now
I was already pretty annoyed when he named a book "trigger warning"
I was thinking about it the other day how fucking weird trigger warning discourse was
like the idea of a piece of media having a warning at the front like "hey there is some fucked up shit in this" was around for at least all of my lifetime and was never controversial
it wasn't until it became about helping people with PTSD that it suddenly became this huge fucking deal and that political corectness had gone too far yadda yadda
it is like our society really hates disabled people or something i dunno
@waitworry there's such a big overlap of people who think trigger warnings are for the weal and people who read those Focus on the Family warning lists of which movies your kids shouldn't see because someone says "damn"
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This is so true! Thank you for pointing it out to me. I would never have figured it out without you saying it.
@waitworry yeah, proponents of hatred saw an opportunity to reinforce stigma and jumped on it
@waitworry It does now. The political rhetoric had to shift from "welfare queens" under Reagan /to/ something, because a specific (here unnamed) sector that is the bulk of non-profits and businesses need to blame deficit spending on something other than them not paying what amounts to their fair share of taxes. There's a sizable anti-tax crowd who find taxes painful, self-employed and small businesses in particular. It's a handy political lever.
Yes, it does... FTW.