Klaus wrote:
[spoiler]But I didn't say they were trying to defend him. I said they were trying to humanise drone pilots and their work by making them look sympathetic, like good well-meaning people who are inadvertently making horrible mistakes in their line of work instead of like criminals who are prepared to fire into a crowd of brown people or levelling a building if it means hitting a suspect. How do you not see the difference? How is the real-life context of all of this so hopelessly lost on you? Are you taking the piss right now? Genuine question, because I'm not going to continue this if you are.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]I know that drone pilots have done terrible things. I just don't view it as propaganda. There are "regular" soldiers doing terrible things every day, but I don't see every war movie where they don't portray soldiers as terrible people as propaganda.
I draw a massive line between action series/movies and real life, and therefore don't see it as a negative that they humanize the antagonist (the terrorist) by giving him a backstory where his town is being blown up by Americans. I don't start sympathising with terrorists in real life just because they humanize them, and the same goes for those who blow up innocent people with drones. If your next post is just continuing to say that's childish, naive or taking the piss I won't continue either, so at least we agree there.[/spoiler]
