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#Like yes Bruce's methods are antiquated and his morals are pretty dicey but Jason pretty much took that thought process
thottybrucewayne · 8 months
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Yall know that Jason isn't 100 percent in the right and his methods aren't like, rational, right? Even if he was just murdering predators and people who deal drugs to children, he really didn't have any plans on what to do about the aftermath. The fall out of that. It's one of the most annoying things about Jason being written by a ton of middle-aged white men with shit politics, Jason is never really shown at that point to understand that his methods aren't really doing anything to help the people of Gotham. That aggravates me because, as a child who grew up on the streets of Gotham you'd think he'd be more knowledgeable about the way crime happens, why it happens, and how to help the victims of said crimes best. Yeah, he killed those child traffickers, but what about the kids? You can kill the drug dealers but that won't stop the flow of drugs into the community esp when cops are heavily involved in the selling of drugs within low-income communities. The issues with Jason's "war on crime" are as glaringly obvious as Bruce's in that they prioritize punishment and putting bandaids on bullet wounds for lack of a better word. The care they offer is temporary and comes with limitations, in Bruce's case it's charity instead of mutual aid. With Jason, it's him leaving the aftermath of his killing an abuser or a predator to other people. In Red Hood the lost days, (fuck Judd Winick btw), Talia mentioned that Jason killed half his teachers because of the things they did (spoilers it's a lot of awful shit) and it seemed like he was covering his tracks, and I think that She was right. If Jason was really all that concerned about the things that these people were doing, he would have gone out of his way to ensure their victims' safety but he doesn't even think about it. The victims and survivors aren't mentioned past what was done to them. They're presented as just the reason for Jason's methods and not people in their own right. TLDR: Acting like either Jason or Bruce is 100 percent in the wrong or in the right is wrong because they're both being written by comic writers who have a pretty rudimentary understanding of poverty, drug use, and crime and everyone would benefit from sitting down and reading some theory I think.
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