Thanos Thanos: The media basically saying that Joker would actually inspire someone to go on a mass-shoot is incredibly reckless. There is no evidence, period, that any genre fiction has every inspired anyone to that kind of violence. Tying a movie into the actions of scum like Eliot Rodgers or Alex Minassian is absolutely ridiculous. This is media laziness at it's worst, with them once again looking away from the reality that if these bastards are inspired by anything when they explode it's in their toxic echo-chambers in social media where other losers like them give them encouragement. Blaming a movie to placate the morons out there is easy. Doing an actual examination of how & why is difficult, which is exactly why pop-media craving for clicks and ratings doesn't do the hard work of actual investigation or examination anymore.
“The Media” isn’t saying these things, they’re just reporting on what some members of the public are saying.
I don’t think anyone can say definitively one way or the other whether some sociopath inspired to some heinous act by a movie would have done something similar even without the movie. It probably depends on the specific case. But personally I think it’s not terribly relevant either way because we shouldn’t self-censor just for these people.
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