Come on, people. Not everything is an opportunity to dump on liberals from the left.
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If it weren't for Rowlings TERFism I think you could easily make a decent TLJ ot KOTOR style deconstruction of it.
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As opposed to "Its appeal is its audience's desire to be part of a capital-B Bourgeois system that's literally designed to teach imperialism and abuse to children IRL so they can rule, later, and therefore leaves literally all the prejudices that system propagates unexamined".
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I mean also its author's own prejudices, obvs. But coming from a UK perspective: she based her wizard school so directly on the type I actually went to to the point that the gowns people wore at mine LOOK THE SAME. And that school system's entire raison d'être is imperialism.
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I don't see how this is blaming multicultural pluralism. I see it as saying it's one of the very few ways a certain kind of liberal can express discomfort with the system. Saying "Oh gosh that's racist!" and "Oh gosh that's against the rules!" while ultimately changing nothing
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It specifically says "challenging only the things that conflict with multicultural pluralism" even though in fact multicultural pluralism isn't supported in the series, even in the examples they give
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it's one of those infuriating things that's spot on until the end. Still coming out with the wrong conclusion after doing all the right work.
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Concur. Saying "liberals need to take up arms and overthrow the system" literally makes liberals the bad guys. I liked the set up- you have to both believe in change and follow through- but decent into unorganized anarchy helps NOONE except whoever owns the most guns. :/
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Twitter is the only place I see where "liberal" and "centrist enabling bigotry" are assumed to be equal. What the hell is that thought? Is it because the people in question aren't, like, literal socialist revolutionaries taking up arms and committing the murders? I don't get it.
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