RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116290338892571761

🤦🏿‍♂️Actually, nevermind.

Why is everything like this?

The author supposedly went on an anti-woke, right-wing podcast to promote the movie while trashing other books and movies that do have a "woke" message or that have inclusive representation? But... why?

Why was that necessary?

@ZDL

But it will cost him money?

@mekkaokereke He's hoping the anti-woke crowd brings him more money than the woke crowd will lose him. He's reading the zeitgeist and cynically taking a knee to the fascists and racists (but I repeat myself). He may also be banking on the fact that most of his woke crowd won't hear about this, so losing even less from that camp.

I didn't say he was right. I'm just highlighting his motivation.

@ZDL @mekkaokereke Money and fear (hopefully).

There's a German term, "vorauseilender Gehorsam". It means compliance with orders/requests before anyone gave/made them.

A lot of fascist enablers do this: they decide that it's better for them in the long term to comply, so they do it before there's even a real need for it.

I can see very few reasons for this: a) they're happy they can be themselves, b) they're psychopaths, c) they're terrified.

Of course appeasement doesn't work 🤷‍♂️