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Amazon Prime's television show, The Boys, follows a group of morally grey people who have suffered at the hands of morally grey super heroes. The show is heavily satirical, aiming most of its political criticism at the right, and it seems that some people are finally starting to catch on. With its most recent episode featuring a super hero brutalizing a black community, shouting, "Supe(r hero) lives matter! Supe lives matter!" many have taken to the comment sections to voice their troubles.

Post 1: Wow, this scene really did bring out people's colours and show how bad the youtube community is in general.

It's obvious he's wrong, he's meant to be a scumbag, he's hateable, all of those things... but

That might be relevant if he was actually fighting gangs, but he's not.

I don’t think they ever stated he was attacking innocent people. Just that he was excessive in his violence.

He literally attacks random people in this scene. Did they explicitly say what type of factions he was fighting or just African Americans? He attacks random black people....

That’s what I’m asking: did they say that or is that how you interpreted it?

Look up the meaning of Based.

Maybe he is actually racist but we don't know that yet

He curbstomped a man so hard the concrete cracked

Post 2: Blue Hawk is Satire of Blue Lives Matter

I feel like the Boys is always a bit too on the nose. Never much subtlety.

This is what I would say is my only criticism with this scene and this character and a lot of scenes and characters in the show. They just kind of shoved in a racist super hero without fleshing his character out

Why would they need to flesh him out? He’s a somewhat minor character meant to personify modern day racism. He’s an archetype.

I think every character in any show I watch should be fleshed out? It makes the character more interesting and less forgettable

On the nose as in, with the subtlety of preaching from a pulpit. Also, if those neighbourhoods were "over-policed", wouldn't there be a reduction of crime?

Um so you think Blue Hawk is actually effective? Policing and white politics has levied a sustained collective trauma in these communities. We just watched how those with power destabilize and devastate those without in pursuit of selfish goals. The outcomes in the community are not a priority. There probably will be an increase in crime in the community where Blue Hawk rampages through the community center, yes. That's Blue Hawk's fault.

Explain to me how knocking over a liquor store is justified because the police beat someone else up?

When peaceful protest is ignored, then one should cause some good trouble.

Post 3: Am I the only one who thinks the "no politics discussion" rule should be revoked when the discussion is in relation to the show?

And yeah the Trump/Homelander stuff is a bit on the nose, but it's not saying Trump is good or bad, it's displaying that his tactics & speeches connect with people despite it's brash nature.

"but it's not saying Trump is good or bad" There was a whole season-long plot about how Homelander's lover was a literal Nazi and he didn't mind that. If you don't think there wasn't a value judgement built into that, I don't know what to tell you.

Post 4: You know what? I give up. How do you watch this show and still manage to miss its core message? How do you side with EVERY bad guy and not see the problem?

Not saying he was right, but

Blue Hawk seems to enjoy profiling and coming down on the black community in general but it's bizarre to me that even saying that 6% of the population committing 50% of the violent crime is racist. The sooner we quit ignoring the statistics, the sooner we can be better.

it’s racist because of what someone bringing those statistics up implies. let me ask you something: why do you think black people disproportionately commit crime?

There is a very skewed truth to what you're saying but to just accept the behavior of this community or even blame the government is pure delusion.

Post 5: Yes, Homelander on 'The Boys' Is Supposed to Be Donald Trump

No wonder the MAGAts and incels hate this show 😂

But we don't.

Pretty terrible rendition then. As to be expected though. The left does not understand the right at all. Just totally do not get it. Regardless, since the right does understand the left, it's easy for us conservatives to get the joke when it comes to The Boys. I get it, and am able to see how funny it is. Like the scene at the gun show with Butcher. Very funny.