For example [vaguely]: writer creates a character who behaves like X, despite nobody actually behaving like X in real life. Then characters behaving like X become a wide-ranging trope. People in the real world begin to think it’s normal to behave like X, and subsequently start actually behaving like X themselves.

Any actual examples of this phenomenon happening?

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      5 days ago

      There has been quite a bit of left wing terrorism in Europe, in the past

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        4 days ago

        Most people do not consider property damage to corporations as terrorism even if the courts and law says it is.

        There is a huge disconnect here which has to be highlighted otherwise leftists are grouped in with mass murderers.