cosmernaut420 t1_jdtm531 wrote on March 27, 2023 at 2:20 AM

Reply to comment by Avicennaete in From millionaires to Muslims, small subgroups of the population seem much larger to many Americans by jrdjared

>queer representation in Hollywood is exactly the same as Fox News telling you the drag queens and trans folk are going to mind control and molest your children

You enlightened centrists never cease to amaze me.

Avicennaete t1_jdtqhvb wrote on March 27, 2023 at 2:58 AM

I said they're both the reason why Americans think queer population is larger than it actually is. Didn't say anything about whether good or bad they are.

I know being an extremist (far left or right) helps people feel a sense of community and belonging but I don't think it's worth of a trade off it to shut off your brain and live in an eco chamber all your life attacking whoever doesn't fully agree with you.

cosmernaut420 t1_jdtrckg wrote on March 27, 2023 at 3:05 AM

>I said they're both the reason why Americans think queer population is larger than it actually is. Didn't say anything about whether good or bad they are.

I think that was my whole point. Implying these behaviors are "the same" is shortsighted bordering on deceptive. Obviously in a vacuum, if every ensemble television or movie cast tics every representational diversity box, you're not going to have anything resembling a literal representational cross-section of broader society. I doubt seriously it causes as much overestimation as a 24 hour news cycle that hypes the same aspects of representational diversity as inimical to and actively conquering broader society.

All that aside the fact that one of these groups is regularly doing stochastic terrorism on live television, and it's not actually the kids from Euphoria.