I don’t wanna sound like some kind of pearl clutching suburbanite, but goddamn. Out of all the spectacles America has shat out I think I hate the true crime stuff the most. It’s genuinely horrifying to me. I hate how it’s always framed, not as some kind of unfortunate breakdown of society or a failure of mental health services, instead true crime revels in the gore and morbidity. It’s just sick and romanticizes people like Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy. We’re so sick we’ve turned serial murder into a fandom on the level of Harry Potter and Hamilton.
The conclusion is always the same but I’ve rarely heard it brought up. That is, these serial murderers are symptoms of white supremacist cops and a failure of mental healthcare. Last Podcast on the Left has mentioned it occasionally.
I don’t know how to express my hatred of this particular obsession without sounding pretentious. I swear I like other fun stuff like violent video games and heavy metal.
It’s absolutely sick and the people who watch/listen to it should be ashamed. They are not helping society, they are not helping themselves, they are vultures enjoying the death of their fellow humans.
capitalist exploitation and ecocide of the whole planet: :comfy:
someone somewhere is listening to a true crime podcast: :honk-enraged:
I can be upset by more than one thing at a time, believe it or not. If I saw one man shoot a hospital and another trip a child and laugh at him, I would be upset by both.
Calling thousands of completely normal people “vultures enjoying death” who “are not helping society” and who “should be ashamed of themselves” for consuming media you don’t personally approve of is peak internet discourse but :honk-enraged: away I guess
Don’t think someone who 1. Accused me of a position/priority list I didn’t have from a single comment 2. Implied I didn’t care enough about a big problem because I voiced an opinion about another problem and 3. Switched arguments mid-roll can really accuse anyone else of being peak internet discourse. All that aside, what’s even your point here? It’s not something i just don’t like or approve of, I’ve stated pretty clearly it’s actively harmful. Are you going to argue that they aren’t deriving pleasure from other people’s pain and suffering, or that this is somehow helping society?
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dang excellent point. You took an aggressive tone and have yet to correct me on what part of my thinking is wrong, I’m clearly being irrational.
