Star Wars is an especially contentious subject that every “enlightened centrist” and lib manages to project onto history in some offensive way. Really, it’s more like a mirror for backwards education of history, so they can just go “when Star Wars does X, it reminds me of how I was taught such-and-such people did stuff.” Perfect example being the Ottomans “stealing” children (neglecting the fact many parents offered their children to the devshirme because it could increase their status).

Another example, one that upset me, was some YT video about the Clone Wars episode where the Pantorans claim an ice moon and the Chairman is trying to kill the indigenous alien species, and ultimately Senator Chuchi makes peace with them by respecting their sovereignty. Somehow, someone argued that the aliens were little better than animals, brutal savages, and Chuchi betrayed her people’s interests by letting them keep their planet (which didn’t even have significant resources). His defense of that was that it wasn’t racism, because these are aliens. I’ve seen other scifi videos where they justify using flamethrowers on bug people (Geonosians); and a “pro-human” speech for the movie Avatar where the villain conflates humanity with building wonders, not primitive connections to nature.

I guess what annoys me to where I can’t listen is where people find a way to be racist by using proxies so when you point out “that’s racist”, they just roll their eyes like you’re too sensitive and tell you it can’t be, because it’s an alien.

I hate podcasts where the advertised subject is interesting but the host/narrator has to go off on a nonsensical tangent with their cohosts every 30 seconds (I’m looking at you Behind The Bastards).

Not every couple of people bullshitting about whatever topic they feel like deserves an audience to hear them out. And I put it that way because that’s more or less what a lot of podcasts boil down to. There are some that are more organized and researched, but there’s also a lot that is effectively just “listen to some people talk about stuff.” Since you can’t chime in to the conversation and voice your disagreement, that may make it more annoying to get through. Either way, you aren’t obligated to give it a fair shake.

As far as the anger goes, that may be something to understand better regardless. There’s usually something else behind anger and it’s not just about anger alone. But I wouldn’t be feeling ashamed for not wanting to finish a podcast episode.

Yes I can relate, when someone says some stupid shit I just turn it off regardless of the quality of the other hosts. Big reason why it took me so long to bother watching the Finklestein video with Rabbani, Destiny and Morris on the Israeli-made Palestine genocide. Destiny is such a dipshit proto-fascist that his contributions derail any valuable discussion that can happen. i’d say mail the podcast saying why something is stupid but honestly, most entertainers are narcissists so don’t expect much.

And no you’re not thin skinned, you just expect a reasonable thing which is for someone with the big microphone on some topic to say the truth. Sadly that world does not exist and any dipshit can say something. The follow count is not indicative of anything.