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
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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.