I was listening to a podcast and the guy was making a point that the Jedi were just like the janissaries of the Ottoman empire because they “stole children” and I just… got so annoyed that I couldn’t listen to it anymore, even though I kinda wanted to due to the other host.
I know where the argument about the Jedi comes from, which comes from the days of the old EU and Karen Traviss and all that stuff, but I just sort-of had a flash of anger. It’s just a pop culture franchise, right? It’s literally just a story. Hell, The Acolyte was pretty rough on the Jedi’s portrayal and I enjoyed it.
Anyway, I just found it pretty dumb, but for some reason, I found that I couldn’t continue. It’s like I had a mental block.
I paused for a moment but then the Spotify episode remained paused.
I wasn’t even that angry, but I… just found myself not interested in this spiel even though I’m normally interested in the podcast.
It just makes me feel so… Idk, silly? Thin-skinned?
To be fair, there were a few things in the podcast that annoyed me; they berated a person that asked a question in good faith, or so it seemed, and they never seemed to challenge each other all that much.
I don’t even like the Jedi that much! By the Clone Wars era, they had clearly grown dodgy and conservative. Mind you, Anakin Skywalker is or was an abuser who killed Indigenous Tuskens, but, well, you know, some of the rules and how they were implemented in the Jedi Order probably didn’t help his mental state either, though that’s probably more the Council’s doing.
Anyway, I don’t know what came over me and why my anger “paralyzes” me sometimes. I haven’t watched it in a few weeks but might again. But I feel somewhat ashamed because it seemed so, err, small.
Yes I can relate, when someone says some stupid shit I just turn it off regardless of the quality of the other hosts. Big reason why it took me so long to bother watching the Finklestein video with Rabbani, Destiny and Morris on the Israeli-made Palestine genocide. Destiny is such a dipshit proto-fascist that his contributions derail any valuable discussion that can happen. i’d say mail the podcast saying why something is stupid but honestly, most entertainers are narcissists so don’t expect much.
And no you’re not thin skinned, you just expect a reasonable thing which is for someone with the big microphone on some topic to say the truth. Sadly that world does not exist and any dipshit can say something. The follow count is not indicative of anything.
True, but on the other hand, getting to see Finkelstein dismiss him as “such a fantastic moron” to his face is a great contribution to comedy.
Honestly, it needed to be said.
And I am glad it was, I am just at a point where owning these morons does not give me any satisfaction because babies are just being murdered in cold blood, how can I reasonably experience schadenfreude? But I am one individual, for a lot of people that was their first time seeing someone “say it as it is” to those freaks, so yeah I am glad it was available but from the get-go I figured this was not for me specifically.
The podcast is called “We’re Not So Different” about the Medieval ages.
It’s… so-so. Sometimes the discussions are good, sometimes the discussions are nerve-wracking.
That’s ultimately why I left.
Yeah, I don’t know why I get livid sometimes.
On another note, I can’t stand online debates for that reason.
Destiny sucks, yes, but moreover, I can’t stand listening to him.
It’s just so… So… Bad.
I think it’s because, during my youth, I would hear these things on TV due to my parents all the time.
I, too, cannot stand online debates, they are just an exercise to see if the “bad guy” character can utilise logical fallacies better than the “good guy” character can use historical recounts and truth. It is fruitless, at this point I really suggest you consider moving to the next stage which is organising locally with your fellow communists/socialists/leftists.
Yeah, they literally use logical fallacies that the bad guys use.
Maybe that speaks to our culture? That we sympathize with the bad guys more than the good?