CandyCandyAshes @ Nadie8101 #sexist #wingnut

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(=context: one is a teenage delinquent with anger issues, the other is literally Hitler=)

CandyCandyAshes: Life is Strange is trending, so I wanna say... Chloe Price is the worst and most awful fictional character I've ever known and I'm glad she gets what she deserves in the Save Arcadia Bay ending.

@Nadie8101: If people understand and empathize with Chloe's behavior as a result of her trauma losing her father, why don't those people understand and empathize with Adolf's behavior as a result of his trauma losing both his parents and growing up in Austria/Germany during arduous times :^)

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Your fallacy is: false equivalency.

"Apples and Oranges" would fall far short of describing the massive gulf between these two scenarios.

Because Chloe smoked pot and broke into a public pool after closing time while Hitler caused one of the worst massacres in human history? You see the difference?

What I know of the game, mostly through watching "Let's Play" videos, paints a truly awful picture of... well just about all the characters quite frankly with Chloe falling just slightly shy of being the absolute worst behind only the serial killer pulling roughly even with the mentally damaged rich bully she tried to blackmail deserving pretty much all the hate she gets. And she causes her own death several times a day through sheer determined stupidity. I've got a pet theory that protagonist Max is actually a delusional narcissist who only imagines everybody secretly thinks she's awesome and the people around her are cartoonish exaggerations and the entire plot with the inexplicable time control powers that have no clearly defined rules is her mind trying to reinforce her delusions and the final choice at the end is whether she accepts reality and her insignificance in the events around her or fully embraces a world of her own construction emptied of superfluous personalities so it is easier to maintain.

But Hitler on the other hand is Hitler. Rather famously responsible for war, genocide, and the enduring fantasy that fascism and institutional racism will do anything but cause more of the same.

There's not exactly a lot to compare other than to say trauma only excuses so much before you have to admit sometimes a bad person is exactly what they want to be.

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More importantly, one is a woman, the other is what *a certain demographic* aspires to be.

There’s a difference between a typical depressed teenager grieving her father and a dictator who plunged an entire continent into a brutal war and whose crimes needed new words to be described.

CandyCandyAshes @ Nadie8101 #sexist #wingnut twitter.com

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