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?
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.