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A gross fabrication?


I just watched episode 3 and the scene with Steven Hicks (the hitchhiker) played out pretty differently than how I thought it did in real life. In the show, Jeff springs a spontaneous kiss on Steven and he reacts by getting angry and calling him a f@ggot. I’ve never heard Dahmer mention actually making a move on Steven or any verbal altercation.

Has anyone heard differently? I just heard that Jeff was hoping for a sexual connection, but realized Steven was straight when he mentioned his girlfriend and killed him when he tried to leave. If the insult is fictitious, then it’s disrespectful to the victim because it made it look like Jeff bludgeoned him in anger after being called an anti-gay slur, rather than just wanting possession over his body. Jeff is made to look sympathetic while his victim ‘had it coming’.

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Well, Steven was white and the focus of the series is how Dahmer victimized blacks, so they had to minimize the impact of Steven's murder by showing us he was just another evil white male and not to be overly sympathized with. So they had him call Dahmer a faggot.

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you've got issues man, every topic I've seen you post in you just divert everything to racial politics. you're obsessed, stop playing the victim and gain some perspective ffs then maybe you won't see race in everything you watch.

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There's no perspective left in modern entertainment other than identity politics. They inject it into every story, so there is very little else to discuss when talking about modern movies and TV.

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Right?! He's obsessed with this narrative he's invented.

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I'm sorry, but I just watched this episode and I'm no way did I think the victim "had it coming", nor did I think it made Dahmer at all sympathetic.

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