RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XVIII
01-06-2021, 01:17 PM (This post was last modified: 01-06-2021, 01:17 PM by GethN7.)
01-06-2021, 01:17 PM (This post was last modified: 01-06-2021, 01:17 PM by GethN7.)
I saw this on TV Tropes and facepalmed so hard I almost knocked teeth out.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?pa...2&type=att
Essentially, they nuked a page on the StoneToss webcomics for being alt-right. As someone who is not a gigantic fan of them, they do come off somewhat right leaning, granted, but some poke fun at both sides (they had a few roasting Donald Trump pretty hard) on occasion and seem to have two qualities:
1. A very easy to pull off art style that comes off as low effort.
2. Using the same "make an offensive point and ask by implications of the final panel like any other troll "why so mad?"
That all said, since we don;t have a page on those comics, I was considering making one because I find their reasoning inane. Mein Kampf has a page on our wiki, and we can discuss it maturely. The Turner Diaries is explicit neo-Nazi fanfic, but we can discuss it dispassionately. We even discuss Donald Trump and have generally managed to keep discussion of that generally civil, so I see no reason we can't discuss a webcomic that is often edgy and offensive with frequent right leaning humor and still remain dispassionate and objective while still remaining honest about its content if we can cover the other topics I mentioned.
In fact, I remember one StoneToss comic even covered the very topic of banning something you find offensive and essentially mocked the concept by having something one side banned just as angry by banning something THEY liked, and the comic, per its trademark, basically was all "but we banned something offensive like you did, why so mad?"
That in mind, I respectfully bring this up because I wanted to create a page on said comics if no one else will and to say I hope and pray we don't go down that route ourselves. Heinrich Heine (whose own works were burned by the Nazis) famously uttered this prophecy on what happens when people do:
"Those who start by burning books....will eventually burn people."
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/query.php?pa...2&type=att
Essentially, they nuked a page on the StoneToss webcomics for being alt-right. As someone who is not a gigantic fan of them, they do come off somewhat right leaning, granted, but some poke fun at both sides (they had a few roasting Donald Trump pretty hard) on occasion and seem to have two qualities:
1. A very easy to pull off art style that comes off as low effort.
2. Using the same "make an offensive point and ask by implications of the final panel like any other troll "why so mad?"
That all said, since we don;t have a page on those comics, I was considering making one because I find their reasoning inane. Mein Kampf has a page on our wiki, and we can discuss it maturely. The Turner Diaries is explicit neo-Nazi fanfic, but we can discuss it dispassionately. We even discuss Donald Trump and have generally managed to keep discussion of that generally civil, so I see no reason we can't discuss a webcomic that is often edgy and offensive with frequent right leaning humor and still remain dispassionate and objective while still remaining honest about its content if we can cover the other topics I mentioned.
In fact, I remember one StoneToss comic even covered the very topic of banning something you find offensive and essentially mocked the concept by having something one side banned just as angry by banning something THEY liked, and the comic, per its trademark, basically was all "but we banned something offensive like you did, why so mad?"
That in mind, I respectfully bring this up because I wanted to create a page on said comics if no one else will and to say I hope and pray we don't go down that route ourselves. Heinrich Heine (whose own works were burned by the Nazis) famously uttered this prophecy on what happens when people do:
"Those who start by burning books....will eventually burn people."