The Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment exists to prevent tropers from making agenda-based edits or bringing up irrelevant controversial issues, but it's not always obvious if something breaks the rule or not. This thread serves the purposes of:
- Getting consensus on cutting overly controversial edits.
- Rewriting biased examples to be more neutral.
- Pre-emptively clarifying if a possible example actually violates the rule, or if it's okay to add.
- Making sure that the rule isn't just being used as an excuse to write a Zero-Context Example ("Some people think that X is Y, and that's all we have to say about it.")
Notes regarding edits related to current political figures
- Current political figures should not be a subject of any trope example on the wiki, except when they meet all three of the following criteria:
- When the work in question specifically mentions the real life individual.
- When the entirety of the example has to do with the portrayal of that individual in the work.
- When the work is fictional.
- Alternatively, when a current political figure has a creative role themselves, such as writing or acting in a work, we give them no more nor less treatment then we would any other creator.
- Additionally, please make sure to take out any examples of Harsher in Hindsight or Hilarious in Hindsight regarding current political figures. A political event that may be seen positively by some people may be seen negatively by others.
Other relevant threads and pages
- The Troping Works That Promote Bigotry
thread, for cleanup involving pages for bigoted works.
- The Pages Attracting Edits That Promote Bigotry sandbox, for pages that attract ROCEJ violations that are bigoted in nature.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Oct 19th 2024 at 12:40:14 PM
It might, but honestly I'm not sure who cares enough about those pages to fix them. I'm just pointing out that the mocking probably isn't actually allowed, no matter how garbage the work is.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallEhh I see. I did clean up the laconic for Ethnic Cleansing to remove a So Bad, It's Horrible wick (on account of it not having an entry there) but other than that left the page alone since it doesn’t deserve to dignity of a neutral page in my book.
Edited by TheLivingDrawing on Oct 17th 2021 at 10:31:06 AM
Once Upon A Time.
Berserk Button: misusing Nightmare Fuel
Ethnic Cleansing does have a So Bad, It's Horrible entry, but it's on Horrible.Video Games Other in the "Companies/Developers" folder, under "Resistance Records".
Personally, I don't think we necessarily need to delete Emily Youcis' page. But the thing that makes me uncomfortable is how it appears to describe her as a silly, eccentric, yet lovable character while almost completely downplaying that she's a literal Heil Hitler-ing, kill-all-Jews Neo Nazi.
Berserk Button: misusing Nightmare Fuel
Attempted rewrite:
She is probably best known for her animated works, chief among which is Alfred's Playhouse: a short, yet crushing tragedy concerning an abused pitbull succumbing to Split-Personality Takeover. Aside from Playhouse, Emily is also known for producing other Deranged Animations, such as music videos for Tyler, the Creator and MC Bushpig and whatever you would call her "Wal-Mart Twins".
In 2010, ScrappleTV hosted Da Emily Show mini-series, a low-budget variety show consisting of "bad" music and general wackiness. From late 2010 to 2016, Emily was the front-runner for her band, Emily Pukis and the Vagrants, which started as a GG Allin cover project but later started producing original music.
Furthermore, Emily has made cameos and been involved in numerous collaborative projects with fellow creators. In Where the Dead Go to Die, for example, she lent her vocal talents for her friend Jimmy ScreamerClaus.
In 2016, Youcis embraced far-right politics and white supremacy, which has since come to define her public image and later works.
Just to address the 'moving the goalposts' stuff, honestly I would be fine with things like Birth of a Nation and The Turner Diaries also being baleeted, but I recognize that that's very unlikely to happen due to them being at least more... I'm not sure how to define it - more relevant to the field of historical study? So it's an argument that I recognize that I would lose and I don't feel too strongly about it.
Things like Stonetoss are more along the lines of active, current white supremacist propaganda, and my steadfast opinion is that even if we can accurately describe and decry a work of active white supremacist propaganda, we probably shouldn't be troping it in the first place. We can, but should we?
Also that rewrite for Emily Youcis looks good.
Berserk Button: misusing Nightmare Fuel
As for the trope list, I'd remove Mad Artist, not just because it calls her "charming and funny" (which, being an alt-right Nazi, she probably isn't anymore), but also because it's misuse since the Mad Artist trope is about someone who kills people for art. Maybe Eccentric Artist could work, but I don't know enough about her personal life to rewrite the example.
Also, Early-Installment Weirdness and Surreal Humor are Zero-Context Examples and should be rewritten or hidden. Deranged Animation feels kinda low on context as well.
Don't forget that Holocaust denial is illegal in Germany (and don't forget that TV Tropes has quite a following in Germany).
Kirby is awesome.The problem with Youcis' page, in my opinion, is that the fact that she is a white supremacist is just thrown in at the end of the description, which after a description with a neutral to positive tone comes off as almost comical in the amount of whiplash it generates. The note about not discussing it further is supposed to avoid edit wars, but it feels like we should talk a bit more about those beliefs and how they influence her work. Some people cite that we don't trope her explicitly racist work as a positive, but pretending it doesn't exist seems like lying by omission.
This is on Blue-and-Orange Morality, under the Religion and Mythology folder.
- God and Satan Are Both Jerks can easily be an example of this as well, not to mention an inversion of the same. Christianity itself lends to these interpretations. Think about it: While God is associated with charity and salvation, he also preaches homophobia, genocide, misogyny, collectivism, and toxic positivity. Meanwhile, Satan teaches excess, gluttony, and abuse, but also knowledge, enterprise, and initiative. Considering most humans would find good and evil in both figures, but both are believed to be consistent, it's this trope.
Edited by MrMediaGuy2 on Oct 19th 2021 at 11:44:23 AM
Wasn't the homophobia thing a grave mistranslation of a passage against pedophilia?
How's your day been?Most likely.
It's a bad example anyway since obviously God isn't meant to be seen as evil; this is entirely up to the interpretation of the reader.
Edited by WarJay77 on Oct 19th 2021 at 4:01:52 AM
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall
Berserk Button: misusing Nightmare Fuel
I'm going to make Sandbox.Emily Youcis Cleanup to start a draft that might later be pasted into her main page.
While I agree with this example on YMMV.Star Trek The Original Series under "Seinfeld" Is Unfunny, it seems a bit inflammatory and out of place:
- Viewers (including many who would call themselves fans of the original series) who complain about Discovery "shoving political correctness and SJW down our throats" by having a black female protagonist, an Asian female captain, etc., perhaps aren't aware that with slightly different language, the exact same complaints were made about the original series.
Rewrite it and move it to Older Than They Think.
Edited by TheLivingDrawing on Oct 21st 2021 at 6:28:50 AM
Once Upon A Time.

Does it count as complaining to viciously mock things like Ethnic Cleansing on their pages? I don’t know if it does or not.
Once Upon A Time.