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Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by fsociety »

okareaman wrote: post #35

I can't help but feel this is aimed at trans activists who protested the Chappelle special. I think he went too far at a couple places, but that's what comedians do. I don't think it's transphobic to push back on trans activists. I have problematic issues (bipolar, recovering alcoholic) but I don't go around demanding the world accommodate me and calling people who won't listen to me haters.

You should read up on Bedlam Hospital and learn more about how privileged we are to not be born in that place and time. Trans people don’t have the same luxury of safety today.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by [deleted] »

rossdavidh wrote: post #53

Problem for not only Netflix, but any other mammoth media company that wants to appeal to >50% of the population: you can't exclude half the political spectrum (either half). In the last part of the 20th century, the utterly drab and lackluster Three-Letter Networks were drab and lackluster in part because they were trying to avoid offending as large a portion of the population as possible. But, with way more than 3…

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Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by stickfigure »

_gabe_ wrote: post #49
aftbit wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure you're disagreeing. It seems more like you are proving the parent post's point. You didn't watch the movie, yet you had an emotional reaction to it anyway, and used that to make a decision about the service. The parent isn't saying that's unethical or anything, just that the movie is being mischaracterized by people who did not watch it.

Because I choose not to watch something that implies it may be sexualizing young girls? So by this logic if you see a trailer for a movie that's highlighting the dangers of child pornography, but from the trailer it seems to be showing and possibly promoting child pornography, and I choose not to watch that because I don't want to unwittingly view a film that promotes child pornography, I have now unreasonably cast j…

There is a common saying in English that I'm sure you have heard of: "Don't judge a book by its cover". You keep doubling down on the cover even when knowledgeable people who have watched the movie tell you that you are mistaken.

So much hatred and misery in the world could be avoided if we figured out how to resist this impulse to judge from surface-level impressions.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by [deleted] »

okareaman wrote: post #35

I can't help but feel this is aimed at trans activists who protested the Chappelle special. I think he went too far at a couple places, but that's what comedians do. I don't think it's transphobic to push back on trans activists. I have problematic issues (bipolar, recovering alcoholic) but I don't go around demanding the world accommodate me and calling people who won't listen to me haters.

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Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by okareaman »

efleeus wrote: post #94
okareaman wrote: post #35

I can't help but feel this is aimed at trans activists who protested the Chappelle special. I think he went too far at a couple places, but that's what comedians do. I don't think it's transphobic to push back on trans activists. I have problematic issues (bipolar, recovering alcoholic) but I don't go around demanding the world accommodate me and calling people who won't listen to me haters.

Quoted post unavailable.

Bingo! I got called transphobic

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by dehrmann »

okareaman wrote: post #35

I can't help but feel this is aimed at trans activists who protested the Chappelle special. I think he went too far at a couple places, but that's what comedians do. I don't think it's transphobic to push back on trans activists. I have problematic issues (bipolar, recovering alcoholic) but I don't go around demanding the world accommodate me and calling people who won't listen to me haters.

It's also a reaction to the Spotify Joe Rogan drama.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by heartbreak »

ratsmack wrote: post #45
joemazerino wrote: post #4

I cancelled my Netflix account after the whole Cuties debacle. While visiting my friends I have noticed that Netflix content quality has been dropping sharply the last few years. Let's hope this exodus of customers and content creators will create a new, more interesting industry for the future.

>... quality has been dropping sharply the last few years ... This is the same trajectory that Disney is taking. They are losing subscribers also as people are becoming tired of the agenda driven content.

What agenda is being driven by The Mandalorian or Encanto? Disney puts out great content year after year.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by robonerd »

texaslonghorn5 wrote: post #68
okareaman wrote: post #35

I can't help but feel this is aimed at trans activists who protested the Chappelle special. I think he went too far at a couple places, but that's what comedians do. I don't think it's transphobic to push back on trans activists. I have problematic issues (bipolar, recovering alcoholic) but I don't go around demanding the world accommodate me and calling people who won't listen to me haters.

I don't think that supports your argument, I think you actually would be justified to ask the world to accommodate you.

No more alcohol consumption in movies then? Romcom heros can't enjoy champagne at their wedding in the end of the movie, because that doesn't accommodate recovering alcoholics who suffer in the mainstream culture of drinking during special occasions?

I understand the logic of that, but I don't think the industry should actually go through with that. Such well-meaning content restrictions would unduly restrict artistic expression. Content warnings about alcohol/drug use should be sufficient to warn away anybody who (understandably!) wants to avoid that sort of content.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by thomasfedb »

okareaman wrote: post #35

I can't help but feel this is aimed at trans activists who protested the Chappelle special. I think he went too far at a couple places, but that's what comedians do. I don't think it's transphobic to push back on trans activists. I have problematic issues (bipolar, recovering alcoholic) but I don't go around demanding the world accommodate me and calling people who won't listen to me haters.

The main point being raised by trans activists is "please let us live our lives and not be horrible to us". There's really not a whole lot more to it than that.

So if somebody's "pushing back" on that, I think it's pretty fair to call them transphobic.

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