blackjotaro:

Tea but fiction has always affected reality. The arts, theatre, and literature have all been tools to liberate and oppress. After the 1915 shit show movie, “Birth of a Nation” was released, the US saw a rise in KKK sympathy and anti-black sentiments (as if there wasn’t enough already). During WWII, anti-Semitic propoganda caused the rise of anti-Semitism which made the Holocaust possible. Demonization of LGBT people in TV and film and other media makes homophobia and transphobia normalized and even comedic for some folks. Countless other examples have had lasting negative affects that we’re still seeing now. Fiction is integral to how we view and process reality and to say that fiction has no bearing on reality is ahistorical at best and at worst, extremely harmful.