Comment by sloth [none/use name]@hexbear.net on Yesterday, a coworker told me that living through current events was like living in the Starship Troopers movie during the Buenos Aires attack. What do I even tell him on Monday?

Yes, he described Palestinians as “the bugs” and said some other really fucking ignorant quotes from that movie without the slightest understanding of Paul Verhoeven’s intent (his effort may have been doomed from the start; he even scolded actors on set for “not getting it” and just enjoying the fascism).

I have some license with what I say because I’m moving and transferring out of state in a few weeks but I also don’t want to have a bad mark on my record by saying something particularly scary about the IDF, so what should I tell him on Monday?

Ask him if he remembers how Doogie Howser was dressed at the end of the movie.

it was just a cool uniform and he was doing it for the human race. He cared about human life so he wasn’t a nazi.

Ya know, the nazis thought the same exact thing of themselves.

Honestly though, just tell him that he isn’t engaging with art in anywhere near an intelligent way. That it’s very surface level. If he’s like most libs that will offend him and he might need to reconsider how he interpreted it.

oh then why’s he even pretending to understand a movie, ask him if you can fuck around in his lab despite not being a chemist

And this is why multi-disciplinary education is so important.

There is no remedy then.

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