I did eventually get around to watching Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9. He makes at least one interesting point, that Trump's attempts to pass off divisive, abusive rhetoric or declarations of totalitarian power as humor should be taken more seriously, not at face value but in their social impact. After all, jokingly ribbing the public about the slide into dictatorship can serve to inculcate dictatorial precepts into the public consciousness in a seemingly innocuous fashion. It's turning up the heat on the proverbial frog's Jacuzzi. Even if not taken literally, it eases the public at large into the idea of the inferiority of such and such group, their evil nature and how deserving those people are of suffering.
A valid point. Good show, sir.
It would've been nice if the obediently line-toeing feminist Mr. Moore would at that point have mentioned that the feminist Twitter hashtag #KillAllMen has been going strong over half a decade now.
Teeheehee! Just kidding boys!
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