Asklemmy

Media has been using nonviolence as a propaganda tool to quash rebellions and silence dissent in the U.S. for decades.

Think about it: almost every single story you ever see across all media that has the heroes using violence in a positive light, especially revenge content, will always portray that character's actions as a negative even when objectively they are not. They always look to the same playbook of cliched arguments, one-liners, and tropes to do this. They are all oversimplified caricatures of or misrepresentations of nonviolence, violence, and revenge, justice, forgiveness, etc. A lot are just outright lies or ad-homs.

It's even departmental policy in some companies to force writers to write their scripts in such a manner.

The only director I've ever seen rebel against it is Quentin Tarantino and I don't think he has been doing it deliberately.