I used a similar example with how we can root for Katniss Everdeen for justice and inequality, but when we see the same fight happening in real life, people want “peaceful protest” and usually what they mean by that is to be quiet and don’t do anything that interrupts their life and they don’t want to see it or hear it either.
Whenever I watch the Harry Potter movies, I always think who would be stupid enough to be on Voldermort’s side. What grown ass adults would go to a school to fight/kill children? And then I look at people in the present and the past, and there will always be some that are on on the wrong side of history. They will back up a person (s) who is clearly evil and doesn’t want harmony. We see these movies and think we will do the right thing, but it’s clear a lot of people won’t.
George Lucas said something about the rebels being inspired by the Viet Cong and that Empire was also America.
Fun fact that of the key reasons why in the Middle East they took pains to say 'Insurgents' and stuff like that was because the word 'rebel' is looked up in America.
So, rebellion and all that jazz looks cool in fiction, but in real life, they want things as is. Even with slavery, where they liked to consider themselves “rebels” during the Civil War, upholding slavery was what was maintaining that status quo that defines conservatism. The north were the true “rebels” because they wanted to change that and abolish the practice.
Only when they’ve been forced to change and several years pass and the things they wanted to uphold get normalized as “bad” will they say “yea, that part of our history wasn’t great”.
It wasn’t “far left loonies” like Bernie Sanders in the 60s fighting to make sure race mixing stayed illegal. It was the fathers and grandfathers of today’s conservatives, who still refer to black people as “the blacks” in 2020.
kindanice2 on August 25th, 2020 at 03:29 UTC »
I used a similar example with how we can root for Katniss Everdeen for justice and inequality, but when we see the same fight happening in real life, people want “peaceful protest” and usually what they mean by that is to be quiet and don’t do anything that interrupts their life and they don’t want to see it or hear it either.
Whenever I watch the Harry Potter movies, I always think who would be stupid enough to be on Voldermort’s side. What grown ass adults would go to a school to fight/kill children? And then I look at people in the present and the past, and there will always be some that are on on the wrong side of history. They will back up a person (s) who is clearly evil and doesn’t want harmony. We see these movies and think we will do the right thing, but it’s clear a lot of people won’t.
bigo0723 on August 25th, 2020 at 03:34 UTC »
George Lucas said something about the rebels being inspired by the Viet Cong and that Empire was also America.
Fun fact that of the key reasons why in the Middle East they took pains to say 'Insurgents' and stuff like that was because the word 'rebel' is looked up in America.
BoilerMaker11 on August 25th, 2020 at 04:19 UTC »
Conservatives today would have been the Americans that sided with the British during the Revolution. By definition, conservatism means “maintaining the status quo”.
So, rebellion and all that jazz looks cool in fiction, but in real life, they want things as is. Even with slavery, where they liked to consider themselves “rebels” during the Civil War, upholding slavery was what was maintaining that status quo that defines conservatism. The north were the true “rebels” because they wanted to change that and abolish the practice.
Only when they’ve been forced to change and several years pass and the things they wanted to uphold get normalized as “bad” will they say “yea, that part of our history wasn’t great”.
It wasn’t “far left loonies” like Bernie Sanders in the 60s fighting to make sure race mixing stayed illegal. It was the fathers and grandfathers of today’s conservatives, who still refer to black people as “the blacks” in 2020.