All subreddits spreading positive/wholesome/uplifting stories/memes/news should ban anything that fits OrphanCrushingMachine trope
Posted by HimikoTogaFromUSSR@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 7 comments
The trope: https://np.reddit.com/r/OrphanCrushingMachine/comments/j84tqn/in_case_anyone_was_confused_andor_concerned_as_to/
00PT@reddit
Pretty much all positive news fits that trope, because the trope is just there being a problem and then progress towards fixing the problem.
There will always be problems. And progress will always be positive, even if you can see the problem that made it necessary was horrible.
HimikoTogaFromUSSR@reddit (OP)
No, the trope is about local success for a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place
00PT@reddit
No problem should exist. That doesn't make progress towards them some kind of invalid positive news.
HimikoTogaFromUSSR@reddit (OP)
The depressing part is that there is no progress, only local success stories that mean nothing in big picture. To give your crude example, slavery wasn't ended because of acts of kindness of slave owners, when slave owners freed their own slaves out of goodness of their hearts, although such cases did happen. "Heartwarming: owner gave freedom to Jack! ... Wait, we have slavery? It's so f*cked up! "
T_Lawliet@reddit
I mean, that's kind of the exact same logic you would use to ridicule doctors setting up clinics in war zones, or setting up homes for the homeless, or giving food to anyone.
World hunger wouldn't be a thing if we took down shitty, institutionalized systems. Global warming wouldn't be a thing. Racism wouldn't be a thing.
At the end of the day, aren't you just making fun of people trying to do good things? This isn't even fun enough to be a crazy idea. It's just sad.
Moblin81@reddit
The ridicule is not on the people doing the act. It’s on the expectation that we should be feeling happy about the story. While I respect doctors who work treating malaria in impoverished countries, I’m not going to read about their work as some kind of “feel good story” to lift my mood. The situation is still fundamentally something depressing the same way reading about some 8 year old selling cookies so that their best friend doesn’t die of cancer is.
Rude_Mud9538@reddit
You're in trouble young man, and pregnant