"you like this movie, right?"

Yea

"You see how it has all this violence and killing in it"

Yea

"Do you consider yourself, its audience, and the people who made it future or current murders for engaging with this"

Not really

"Okay, okay, so now look at this anime picture"

B-but, that's a minor

and then the VANILLA MOTHERFUCKERS who are only aesthetically and performatively progressive come around smugly thinking they've got it all figured out and its like pulling teeth trying to get them to think through even the basics

The cool thing about having real principles is that you can stand proudly by them even if people who you generally consider to the opposite of yourself might happen to nominally agree with them. If you're contrarian for the sake of being contrarian with your opposition, that's just being reactionary

Freedom of the arts is one of the few things in the world where "all or nothing" truly applies

Cause once you establish "certain types of art shouldn't be made", that list will always expand until only the lowest common denominator remains

Like quite literally, the whole "exploitation of children" nonsense that got Horses banned from Steam started with Valve being insane about Japanese games. These two things are as directly connected as it gets!

it's okay you can namedrop geoff