Fans Can't "Bully" a Corporation. That's Nonsense.

(Yes, I'm finally back. And as you can see over on the right sidebar, I've created a writing blog. Please feel free to check it out!)

I'm not really invested in the Justice League and, until this week, wasn't all that fussed about the Snyder Cut. But now? Now I'm interested -- not because I necessarily intend to watch it or anything (although I may if I hear good things about it from people I trust), but because I find the hard-left SJW media's reaction to the announcement of its upcoming release so incredibly bizarre.

See, I'm old enough to remember when the left was anti-corporate. But this week, I've seen so-called progressives pen article after article asserting that fans pushing for the aforementioned release supposedly "bullied" Warner Brothers into doing their bidding and that this is setting "dangerous precedents" blah-blah-blah. To which I respond: what the actual eff? As the title of this post asserts, you can't "bully" a corporation. That's like saying David "bullied" Goliath by slingshotting that rock at the Philistine's forehead.

Seriously: what happened to that old Occupy Wall Street spirit? I had a dim view of those protesters because they were very obviously socialist/communist in their sympathies, but there was one thing they actually did get correct: corporations don't need government handouts, nor do they need our solicitude. So why is the left suddenly getting all teary-eyed about the plight of poor, beleaguered Warner Brothers? I'm sorry, but a huge media empire is not some vulnerable underdog we must rally to defend.

Also, I have a question: did Star Trek fans "bully" NBC when they struck up a letter-writing campaign to save the show for a third season? Did Farscape fans "bully" the SciFi/SyFy channel into giving us some closure with the Peacekeeper Wars miniseries? Were we Early Edition fans "bullying" CBS when we attempted (but ultimately failed, sadly) to save our sweet little family-friendly show about a magical newspaper that was delivered by a cat? Fan campaigns, historically, are an utterly normal, utterly benign, and omnipresent phenomenon.

Enthusiastic fan uprisings are not automatically stalking horses for "incel terrorism" or "white supremacy" or any other BS you're trying to peddle. In the media sphere, they're simply a fact of life. True: there are individual fans who can behave in toxic and/or threatening ways. But if your hatred of ordinary fans has become so extreme that you reject any action that caters to them at all, I think you need to completely reevaluate your life.