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Affective Fallacy

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Literary critical term tentatively invoked to describe the phenomenon of readers dismissing works because they can't identify with morally compromised characters

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"What's up with this style of media consumption where you must be able to identify with the character? I never really took any English classes so I don't have the word for it, maybe it's the affective fallacy? But it even feels wrong to call it a fallacy, it just seems like a totally babybrained way "
Redditor book reviews/media literacy · u/Few_Capital2250 · ↑60 · 2023-07-21
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