A major reason I think the 1st amendment is bullshit is that it protects antivaxxer pseudoscience that actively gets people killed and brainwashing misinformation campaigns that result in outright fascism but not, like, sex workers running business without endangering themselves
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It's straightforwardly dystopian by most people's standards and I can only read Jemisin as being ironic or at least intentionally provocative with it It's an attempt to mimic the deliberately confrontational tone of the original Omelas story that I'm not sure came off
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I'm not saying I fully reject the mindset of the story but the presentation didn't work on me The tone of Omelas worked because it was an ironic tragedy, the hectoring voice of the narrator trying to get the reader to accept something the author, irl, doesn't accept
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