not saying Card deserves any passes or excuses or even that he’s necessarily less hateful toward queer people(although I think he’s definitely less hateful toward, like, fat people, awkward people, fat people, disabled people, etc.)just that..they’re not in the same weight class
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"No, I *knew* that I don't mean the new one, I mean the *first* one, the *original* The me from before I ever met you people, the one who first signed the contract Where is he? Is he still alive? Please, I need to know, I HAVE to know"
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"I knew what you meant" And the Company's overseer looked him in the eyes, this scarred, broken, twisted old man, this man who from the moment he'd touched down on this planet hated him to the core, hated every cell in his flabby body as no one else possibly could
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So this reads to me as Card hating himself for not being able to stick to a diet (to be clear, not something I judge in the slightest) and of course coming up with a dystopian short story about it
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Like all his Problematic stories in terms of writing it's a very powerful story, I think, because the problematicness comes from such a deep core of personal self-hate
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Also, the guy who's torturing the clones is the original version of the guy.
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I though that was the most messed up part, the original guy taking out his self hate on generations of himself.
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