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> This is true for male and female founders. It's not just founders, think about the pictures of Obama and O.J. where they were made blacker. Or the images of
by Alex3917 10y ago
> This is true for male and female founders.
It's not just founders, think about the pictures of Obama and O.J. where they were made blacker. Or the images of James Holmes or Saddam.
People will actually complain and threaten to kill the magazine editors if they don't make the 'bad guys' look evil enough; look at what happened with the Rolling Stone photo of the Boston Marathon bomber.
- briandear 10y agoThe problem with the Boston thing is that RS put them on the cover -- essentially giving them one of the most honored spots in music. That's what people were mad about -- elevating monsters and putting them at the same level as you might Bono. They weren't complaining about the saturation or hue.
- sangnoir 10y ago> elevating monsters and putting them at the same level as you might Bono. I disagree with the dehumanization of people who do dispicable things (e.g. the Boston Bomber or Nazis) - they were not monsters but humans like you and I; only with very warped belief systems. There danger is that categorizing them as monsters will limit our understanding of how they come about and/or how to prevent this from recurring in the future. On the issue of appearing on a magazine cover - I do not think the glamorizing was intentianal. Good-looking people dominate covers, and monster or not, the dude was good looking. Hitler was once Time magazine "Man of the Year" - they were not lionizing him, but only declaring he had made the greatest impact of the year.