Where Are My Children: Crash Course Film Criticism #4
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Date: 2022-04-04
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I quite enjoy Crash Course, but the writers tend to fall often in the mentality of privileged elistist coastal liberals, because the ideology they try to spread obviosuly comes from those bubbles, they don-t understand how how underprivileged people think, they simply consider their opinions as wrong because they are uneducated. that-s very bigoted.
Example, it-s very clear when they strawmen different opinions, such as being pro-birth control is contradictory to being against abortion. it really isn-t. It-s a nuanced opinion, something CC seems to see as inherently wrong for some reason because it-s currentYear.
Nuance is what makes this topic controversial, not others being inherently wrong. If you see the opinions of others as wrong because of their time, you are not open-minded, you are just parroting what you were taught to think.
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I quite enjoy Crash Course, but the writers tend to fall often in the mentality of privileged elistist coastal liberals, because the ideology they try to spread obviosuly comes from those bubbles, they don-t understand how how underprivileged people think, they simply consider their opinions as wrong because they are uneducated. that-s very bigoted.
Example, it-s very clear when they strawmen different opinions, such as being pro-birth control is contradictory to being against abortion. it really isn-t. It-s a nuanced opinion, something CC seems to see as inherently wrong for some reason because it-s currentYear.
Nuance is what makes this topic controversial, not others being inherently wrong. If you see the opinions of others as wrong because of their time, you are not open-minded, you are just parroting what you were taught to think.
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Scott
Hold on a sec.
How is arguing that the poor should have access to birth control -eugenics-? Shouldn't women of any demographic have control of their body? Or are you insinuating that the husband thinks the poor should not have children but his rich wife should? As opposed to him believing in life beginning at conception? Can't you be a proponent of birth control and against abortion? SHOULDN'T you be (if you are against abortion? After all, the best way to prevent abortions is to prevent unwanted pregnancy to begin with.
I think this argument fails in that we never see the wife attempt to use birth control to prevent pregnancy to see her husband's reaction.
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Hold on a sec.
How is arguing that the poor should have access to birth control -eugenics-? Shouldn't women of any demographic have control of their body? Or are you insinuating that the husband thinks the poor should not have children but his rich wife should? As opposed to him believing in life beginning at conception? Can't you be a proponent of birth control and against abortion? SHOULDN'T you be (if you are against abortion? After all, the best way to prevent abortions is to prevent unwanted pregnancy to begin with.
I think this argument fails in that we never see the wife attempt to use birth control to prevent pregnancy to see her husband's reaction.
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Apathetish
I-ve never seen the movie, and am going just on what I-m seeing here, but maybe the movie is pro birth control because it is the choice of the women in bad situations. And going against abortion because #1 they should have used birth control (in whatever form there was at the time, or #2 the abortions were done behind the father-s back when he wanted to have children. Maybe that needs to be a conversation between the couple before a baby is made. But who knows how a conversation would have gone back then.
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I-ve never seen the movie, and am going just on what I-m seeing here, but maybe the movie is pro birth control because it is the choice of the women in bad situations. And going against abortion because #1 they should have used birth control (in whatever form there was at the time, or #2 the abortions were done behind the father-s back when he wanted to have children. Maybe that needs to be a conversation between the couple before a baby is made. But who knows how a conversation would have gone back then.
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john
eugenics is not a pseudo science, it just may seem like one to a modern liberal film student, but it has well established scientific credentials, its just dangerous to practice when it comes to humans because of our biases, however we practice selective breeding with every other animal with very obvious and easy to see results, and since scientifically humans are animals, apes to be precise, we in theory could do the same thing with people
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eugenics is not a pseudo science, it just may seem like one to a modern liberal film student, but it has well established scientific credentials, its just dangerous to practice when it comes to humans because of our biases, however we practice selective breeding with every other animal with very obvious and easy to see results, and since scientifically humans are animals, apes to be precise, we in theory could do the same thing with people
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GREENSP0RE
I do feel like people unfamiliar with the popularity of eugenics at the time of this movie won't see the connection. This is something that requires a more detailed explanation in order to do it justice. Also, just because the movie parallels the central assumptions of eugenics, that does not mean it is necessarily about them. If anything it is more an indication that it is a product of its times, influenced by yet a distinct thing.
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I do feel like people unfamiliar with the popularity of eugenics at the time of this movie won't see the connection. This is something that requires a more detailed explanation in order to do it justice. Also, just because the movie parallels the central assumptions of eugenics, that does not mean it is necessarily about them. If anything it is more an indication that it is a product of its times, influenced by yet a distinct thing.
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education
So because it shows that abortion is painful and has a profound and negative affect on people the film is relegated to a -time-capsule showing the prejudices of the time-? I'm pro-choice but you can't say that because it shows the negative aspects of abortions and doesn't completely affirm your opinion it is wrong or outdated.
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So because it shows that abortion is painful and has a profound and negative affect on people the film is relegated to a -time-capsule showing the prejudices of the time-? I'm pro-choice but you can't say that because it shows the negative aspects of abortions and doesn't completely affirm your opinion it is wrong or outdated.
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j.
Hum, representing it as a time when people were pro-birth control for the poor, and against abortion for the well-off. And. a current day U. S. where having an abortion costs only a tenth of the cost of giving birth, so that only the very well-off can afford to comfortably have a child in hospital, is different how exactly?
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Hum, representing it as a time when people were pro-birth control for the poor, and against abortion for the well-off. And. a current day U. S. where having an abortion costs only a tenth of the cost of giving birth, so that only the very well-off can afford to comfortably have a child in hospital, is different how exactly?
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EsaiTheRevolution
I honestly thought the film was anti abortion, I've never seen it but from hearing the explanation of it in this video I thought the film was condemning the women who have had abortions and the ending is sad, where it shows they would have been happier with the children had they not been aborted.
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I honestly thought the film was anti abortion, I've never seen it but from hearing the explanation of it in this video I thought the film was condemning the women who have had abortions and the ending is sad, where it shows they would have been happier with the children had they not been aborted.
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Matthew
>roastie finally ready to have a family
>killed one too many of her own unborn babies
>becomes infertile
>dies childless with regret
Yeah, the reason this film wouldn't even get played in a university course is because it's a warning AGAINST abortions
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>roastie finally ready to have a family
>killed one too many of her own unborn babies
>becomes infertile
>dies childless with regret
Yeah, the reason this film wouldn't even get played in a university course is because it's a warning AGAINST abortions
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TechnicLePanther
I don't believe this story is about eugenics. I think Weber chooses to show the counter-argument, the benefits of abortion, before showing her true opinion, that abortion is self-destructive and removes a god-sent gift.
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I don't believe this story is about eugenics. I think Weber chooses to show the counter-argument, the benefits of abortion, before showing her true opinion, that abortion is self-destructive and removes a god-sent gift.
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