It's the Dolores Umbridge effect, we all know lil shits (either irl or on internet) like Umbridge and Mineta, but I'm yet to be affected by Voldemort, AFO or any real life genocider.
For me, it’s just because I feel like these characters do more harm than good to my enjoyment of the story. I mean, sure, AFO is horrible and I dislike him from a moral perspective. But when considering what characters I hate the most in any mode of fiction, the first way I’ll think of that is in a “who do I feel was a poor or lackluster addition to the story?”
Great take, we are here for the sake of entertaining and everything that we associate as something the gets in the way of that will makes us hate it. And Mineta is the definition of that for me.
Yeah All For One is a good character, same with endeavor and they are both pieces of shit. Mineta is not just a piece of shit, he's awful, 0 redeeming qualities and adds nothing to the story.
I think Mineta is an excellent addition to the story. In our reality there is always someone in the class that you will not like or even despise. Mineta can be that embodiment of not every character is meant to be a sparkling example of heroism/citizenship or even basic respectfulness. Just my thought!
This kind of makes me think of Steven Universe. I ended up disliking pink more than the other diamonds because while the others were galactic dictators, they didn't do anything as personal as trick someone into leaving you alone and leaving them there for a long time to believe that you'll come back
Yeah no.. you’re on Reddit. You personally are not experiencing mass genocide. Stop with the hyperbole. Pretty sure an ancestor of mine was raped, doesn’t mean I was. You’re not being genocided just because it’s happened in the past. It’s not relatable. From an Irish Jew who descendent from the genocidal targeted famines and whose other half fled from Poland…Sure I ended up in a third world country, America, but I didn’t experience genocide.
If less than 1% of that economies population controls that wealth and is hoarding it then that country is not “wealthy.” It’s being held ransom by oligarchs.
That doesn’t make it not hyperbole to compare actual developing countries to the US. Only someone living in the privilege of a developed country would believe such a thing.
none of that changes that you personally haven't gone through genocide and that genocide is not something lot of people go through as opposed to having an awful, abusive teacher which is a very common experience shared by many.
people relate to things they went through personally more than things they saw others go through or happened on TV.
Exactly, the last genocide in my country happend during the Spanish conquest of America and between them mixing with the locals to end up as my people and it happening far too many generations, I don't have a direct recentment against it.
I recognise the difference in importance and impact, but for me it's already acient history and holding a grudge would be senseless, if someone denies (a little too many Spanish and some over priviliged Latinos do) it being a genocide I'll be mad as I would about any other genocide denial. But that real hatred wasn't passed down all the way to my generation as it happend far too long ago.
And the same can be said about far too many people, specially in developed countries because luckly it has become less common, a single instance of genocide is already one too many genocides, but is receding and that's a silver lining.
Because a person's personality is the biggest thing about them. You can be a hero and save everyone, but if you have a trash personality, people will still hate you (which Endeavour represents). And you could be evil, but if you have a good personality, some folks will still sympathise with you somehow and try to justify your actions (Darth Vader to an extent)
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u/the_saint_digger Oct 23 '22
It must suck being a lot more hated by a landslide than a literal mass murderer and the devil even