1/ I'm thinking about those NYT ads where "this [ obese ] [ black ] woman is imagining Harry Potter without his creator" and in addition to the tiresomeness of the demographic pandering, just the "imagine X without Y" is sticking in my craw
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5/ The proper reaction to this is not to imagine The Moon is a Harsh Mistress or Door Into Summer "without Heinlein". It's to appreciate the work, understand the man on his own terms, and realize you have some reservations about his views.
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6/ Most of the authors I like are not just left of me (not too hard) but very left of center. I don't try to imagine Newton's Wake without Ken MacLeod, or Perdido Street Station without China Mieville, or Mother of Storms w/o John Barnes. I just understand that people disagree
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7/ I very much dislike the totalizing idea that you can't accept people, or art, if there are flaws or disagreements. It's evidence of the religious [ prog ] mania that we find ourselves in, that this point even needs to be made / discussed.
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