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So if some actor complains about something deplorable, and then there is a huge manufactured fake backlash, is it always ok to write "The actor created controversy by..."?
Lets make your argument more absurd and say there is a hypothetical problem with boots stomping on faces. All day and night these people would randomly pick certain people and start to stomp on their faces. Hypothetically it's recently been legalized by Trump via executive order.
Is complaining about that creating controversy? Is there any line of deplorable, morally unacceptable behavior that would shift the framing from "creating controversy by complaining" to "spoke out and became a victim of a manufactured outrage by fascists"?
My problem is with the framing and how we're accepting fascism as legitimate, while hiding the backlash is fake, immoral and baseless. This is the opposite of accepting reality and fighting back. It's accepting fascism as something that we must respect and tolerate.
It is objectively controversial. People were offended by the things Zegler said - the film was being relentlessly mocked online years before its release. The backlash to the film isn't just about it being Disney live action remake slop and you haven't been paying attention at all if you think this is the case.