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Date: 2019-09-01 01:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-01 07:00 pm (UTC)The whole point of The Joker is that his brain isn't comprehensible to the likes of others. Humanising him seems to me to be utterly missing the point.
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Date: 2019-09-01 02:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-01 07:00 pm (UTC)(Also true for most of the other DC movies)
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Date: 2019-09-02 08:26 am (UTC)I've got a *lot* of sympathy for the view that we shouldn't offend people or make them feel scared. I also don't hold the view that we need to preserve artifacts of our past as perfect simulcra.
But how one manages the transition from "X used to mean Y, which was fine, but now means Z, which is less okay" I don't know.
I also still remain intrigued by the number and status of non-white peope in British Isles in historical periods.