The executive producer on Netflix’s The Witcher has blamed American audiences and social media sites such as TikTok for…

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    1 year ago

    This you?

    > > > I’m pretty sick of Americans feeling picked on. > >

    > > > You have an illiteracy rate of like 20%. Make a real public school system and then we’ll talk. > >

    You weren’t just making fun, you were saying you’re sick of us being bothered when people made fun of us.

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      >You weren’t just making fun, you were saying you’re sick of us being bothered when people made fun of us.

      Except that the context in which I was replying was not one where someone felt picked on because they got made fun of, it was one where someone felt picked on because someone said that it’s plausible they dumbed down the Witcher for Americans.

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        @masterspace Yeah, but YOU are the one who brought public school into it and you did it in a clever little jokey way.

        If you had said “Well, that’s what you get for attacking the wrong country”, it would be one thing. But you went and made fun of the public school system. You punched down. And now, for your sins, you are stuck in this conversation.

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          >Yeah, but YOU are the one who brought public school into it and you did it in a clever little jokey way.

          Because the quality of education affects intelligence, or more specifically, the ability to hold more/less complex witcher plotlines together in your head, so it is a rationale thing to bring up when discussing whether or not Americans are actually capable of holding more/less complex witcher plotlines together in their heads.

          >You punched down

          No, I merely held up a mirror and caused you to have a temper tantrum