On 26 November 2013 21:24, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 November 2013 17:47, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Where is the glamorization of genocide?? The U.S. fought WW2 to defeat >> practitioners of genocide, when it could have just defended its borders and >> let the Nazis have Europe and Japan take China. And now you accuse us of >> glamorizing genocide!? >> >> I was referring to westerns. > >> >> Although tbh there *is *a lot of glamourisation of violence in TV and movies, and especially ones made in America --- amongst other places, of course, but it seems particularly prevalent in US output, so much so that we rarely watch any American TV anymore, despite the fact that we watch a lot of detecttive shows (we make an exception for "Elementary"). But so much TV from the US seems to be full of people being shot, and often in a "clean" way - they fall down dead, rather than dying realistically, in a painful, protracted, voiding-their-bowels sort of way.
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