RE: KIRAC - Keeping It Real Art Critics - one of the things I love about the Netherlands
If only some conversations in real life could be filmed and split up like this, explained and clarified, piece by piece...
In a way, this is quite one-sided, because the clarifications are always done by KIRAC only, which is designed to lead one towards a better understanding of only their point of view, even if one didn't have it to begin with.
"Pretentiousness with a cause.".... Love that... and yes, it is! And yet, while I completely emphatize with their "cause", and agree with the point they are trying to make, there is another part of me, simply due to the one-sidedness of the presentation.
And also due to the manipulative aspects, which shouldn't be necessary. If someone has a good argument, there is no need to undermine any of "the players". The whole thing regarding Netflix only served to create a prejudice towards the character of one of the players, Annelies van Eenennaam, and that is manipulative and cheap.
Good argumentation doesn't need that...
Shouldn't that eloquence/intelligence he stressed a couple of times be enough to make their case and prove their point?
But then again, this is how ideas of viewpoints are mostly presented, so this is no different and probably shouldn't bother.
I find it particularly important to pay attention to such things whenever we are in agreement with the presented idea.
Hi!
Your response raises this question to me: "Do points of view always have to be presented in a balanced way?" And which balance should it reflect? An interesting example where this isn't the case, is the climate 'debate' in the US. Tv-shows have long presented one climate change sceptic, opposed to one climate change scientist.
But I agree on your point of view. These guys, also in their other videos, use this approach very often. If feels to me a little bit like watching Joffrey Lannister suffocate. I know it's wrong, but still I thoroughly enjoy it.
And let's face it: in real life, the power is entirely on the side of those guys they're taking down here. Those who defend the system.
Finally, in my view, they completely admit all of this in the final sentence of the video.
But they do deny that this is not about their YouTube views, even if they've clearly jumped on a hot topic here. I would appreciate it if they'd just admit that as well.
And was the framing of the lady as a Netflix watcher necessary? I don't think so. But I don't think that they assume somebody will take that very seriously.