On the other hand, as you said this is fundamentally an appeal to the brutish, nastiest, most hateful parts of ourselves, and the fact that the marginalized want to be bullies too does not make it any less foul. See my regular rants about how monster hunters equal pogrom to me.https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1313031187254763520 …
I have really mixed feelings about Holy War because it is a very sensationalized view of the Middle East and also one that glosses over a lot of problematic shit
But it is an #ownvoices creation, it's two Middle Eastern Arab Muslims writing about their own culture
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Like "Hey if you're gonna do a badass wartorn-country guerrilla warfare story about the Middle East, let's do so from a sympathetic and informed perspective" And it took a LOT of stones to publish a book where the heroes are armed militant Arabs in 2002
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Anyway one of the things that causes "friction" when the Muslim Hunters open up relations with the Western Hunters on http://hunter-net.org is respected hunter-net poster Hope123, a devout Jew, finding out they're all anti-Zionist as a basic assumption
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Yeah does that matter at ALL to my criticism? If anything that gets me side eying it *harder* given what I just said, dude.
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Again, blood libel is super common in the MENA, Hunters' primary foes are often vampires who are defined by being a tainted mastermind conspiracy of metaphorically sexual immoral monsters. Do the math.
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