@arthur_affect @BootlegGirl Ender's game is one of the most overrated scifi books of all time
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@JonathanDBrown@BootlegGirl John Kessel talked about this years ago and the homophobia is not the issue http://www.masson.us/blog/enders-game-creating-the-innocent-killer/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@arthur_affect@BootlegGirl the whole of the book leads up to a weird, and kinda boring twist, then says fuck all the awesome places...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@arthur_affect@BootlegGirl you COULD go with go with it, but scott card decides not toThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Yeah, seconding Arthur here. Homophobia isn't the issue.
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If anything, the issue is illustrated by the way in which fans defended the book when the boycott happened
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Like, people wanted to boycott the film bc of the author's views. REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU SUPPORT THAT,
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the reaction people had troubles me. They argued that the book's message of empathy contradicts the bigotry
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But the way they describe the empathy places Ender's suffering as the reason why we should be empathetic
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@BootlegGirl@JonathanDBrown@arthur_affect ... which is a mainstream narrative, to be fair, but yeah not a good one.
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