Only if you think tone is more important than content.
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Replying to @XaiaX @chaosprime
Deplatforming is good. Getting people fired is not. It isn't about content.
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Replying to @jenphalian @chaosprime
I think the distinction between “deplatforming” and “getting fired” when the person in question is a writer or something like that is pretty grey area. The consequences of firing are a result of capitalism, and complicate the issue, obviously.
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Replying to @XaiaX @chaosprime
I don't think fiction, especially for-hire genre stuff in a popular series, is anything like a platform.
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Replying to @jenphalian @chaosprime
Fiction has the potential to be the absolute largest platform, though. Even if most of the time it isn’t. Look at the reactions to The Last Jedi or Wonder Woman or Harry Potter. Pop culture is the dominant form of cultural subversion. Especially anything targeted to kids.
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Replying to @XaiaX @chaosprime
If JK Rowling were considered politically good, I guess I'd find that argument more compelling.
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Replying to @jenphalian @chaosprime
The argument is the number of people who can’t seem to formulate an anti-fascist position without resulting to allusions to the books. That’s the kind of subversion I mean, regardless of quality. You can’t deny how extremely influential it is as a shared reference.
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Replying to @XaiaX @jenphalian
but... uh... if we were firing people from fiction because of their problematic politics... we wouldn't have dumbledore's army for the hashtag resistance to larp because jk rowling would have been fired for her crimes against lgbt and indigenous people
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Replying to @chaosprime @jenphalian
but but but she retroactively decided it was OK if Hermione was black and dumblegay and and and
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Sudden internal existential crisis at the intersection of "fire all these shitholes" and my personal belief that authorial intent is 100% irrelevant.
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ouch yeah emotional commitments and intellectual commitments crashing right into each other, that's gonna leave a mark
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