By “purity culture”, I mean this recent idea that if you like [insert character that is villainous or has [insert bad belief] here] that you are secretly a horrible person, agree with their actions, or have the same beliefs as them.
By “purity culture”, I mean this recent idea that if you like [insert character that is villainous or has [insert bad belief] here] that you are secretly a horrible person, agree with their actions, or have the same beliefs as them.
I have never seen this.
But I have seen people use horrible characters to represent themselves because they unironically agree with those horrible characters, which is probably what fuels the responses you’re talking about.