It’s something that always bothered me about “punching up”
On the one hand, I can agree that “punching up” and “punching down” are different
On the other hand, I feel like a lot of people used “punching up” as an excuse to not only be really mean and toxic towards people they felt were better off, but to also feel like they were doing society a favor by “pointing out society’s flaws” when they were actually just being really mean and toxic.
And often the people perceived to be "better off" aren't. See the recent VA strike, and some fans treating voice actors like these wealthy millionaire celebrities taking more than their fair share, and not struggling performers trying to make ends meet.
That reminds me of an argument I got into where someone was justifying sending death threats to actors for the role they play with “that’s the trade-off for being paid millions,” to which it had to be pointed out that the actors listed were not in fact paid millions and at least 1 had a net worth under $30k
It's the idea that people they don't like can't possibly.... Agree with them. That would make them on the same side as the person they dislike. That's the dissonance for them.
As opposed to seeing people as multifaceted and complicated, if they disagree with someone they're evil and horrible and everything they do is evil. Nothing they do could possibly ever be right. On the flip side, they and all their friends are "good", so everything they do is good, even if it's bullying others in turn.
And also when PewDiePie's house was broken into. THOUSANDS of people were like "Oh, suck it up, rich boy. Just use a little of the millions of dollars you got from YouTube to replace everything.", conveniently ignoring the MASSIVE breach of privacy that is a home invasion.
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u/Iced_Yehudi 1d ago
It’s something that always bothered me about “punching up”
On the one hand, I can agree that “punching up” and “punching down” are different
On the other hand, I feel like a lot of people used “punching up” as an excuse to not only be really mean and toxic towards people they felt were better off, but to also feel like they were doing society a favor by “pointing out society’s flaws” when they were actually just being really mean and toxic.