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Why has modern fandom developed a sort-of purity culture? (lemmygrad.ml)
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By "purity culture", I mean this recent idea that if you like [insert character that is villainous or has [insert bad belief] here] that you are secretly a horrible person, agree with their actions, or have the same beliefs as them.

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[–] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago

I have never seen this.

But I have seen people use horrible characters to represent themselves because they unironically agree with those horrible characters, which is probably what fuels the responses you're talking about.