>>111483251>>111483358>>111483403>>111483417Bit of a long post but follow me. I remembered asking a comic book friend whos in his fifties if he had to deal with bullying in high school in the 80s becaue he read comics, played DnD, and such. He replied "not really. It wasn't about reading comics, lots of kids in high school red comics. You were more likely bullied because you were a spaz." I was thinking about this because of the preconseption of high school movies from the 80s always presenting that dynamic before I realized the fatal flaw. All of these movies were made by people who grew up in the 50s and 60s, where that cliche was more likely prominent.
Also, those 80s movies, due to most being made by kids who were more aligned with the hippie movement, the McCarthy hearings and such, usually viewed right wing people as less then desirable so it was obvious that their own political bias would color the enemies of their movies as right wing.
Bob was heavily bullied as a kid but, concidering bostons makeuo, I highly doubt that most of thoss kids were republican or came from republican families and we know he identifies right wing rural americans as the kids that bullied him but where would he make that connection? John Hughes movies.
His entire worldview, his entire ideology and personal politics, his live for eugenics and absolute loathing of rural whites, simply come from him identifying the bullies from revenge of the nerds with the kids that picked on him in school without any shred of evidence or proof to his theory. His hatred toward the right wing is all due to him ingesting, intentionally or not, propaganda from classic films from the 80s and 90s. Let that sink in.
