Twitter, allow me a smallish thread about this new HBO Confederate series.http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/game-thrones-showrunners-set-drama-series-confederate-at-hbo-1022631 …
-
-
Replying to @fozmeadows
Not that either of them would remember me, but I briefly met Weiss and Benioff at the Hugo Awards in 2014. They were perfectly pleasant -
1 reply 3 retweets 22 likes -
Replying to @fozmeadows
- but that doesn't exempt their *ideas* from criticism. And boy howdy, does this particular notion merit some comment.
1 reply 3 retweets 34 likes -
Replying to @fozmeadows
By the reference to the "Mason-Dixon Demilitarised Zone" between the Union and the slave-state, it feels like they're evoking N/S Korea.
1 reply 3 retweets 26 likes -
Replying to @fozmeadows
Which is ironic, given that the *actual* schism btwn the Koreas came about during the Cold War: the US backed the South, Soviets the North.
1 reply 3 retweets 26 likes -
Replying to @fozmeadows
That happened after Russia and the US ended up occupying the country after WWII, which... the history there is complex, is the point.
1 reply 3 retweets 21 likes -
Replying to @fozmeadows
And certainly not my area of expertise. But I'm mentioning it because it makes me wonder: will this alt-history world have two Koreas, too?
2 replies 3 retweets 25 likes -
Replying to @fozmeadows
Let's be clear: shoddy worldbuilding is BY NO MEANS the most glaring problem with a modern-day story about ongoing black slavery.
1 reply 10 retweets 41 likes -
Replying to @fozmeadows
Black people in the USA right now don't have to spin an alt-history "what if" to consider the impact of institutional racism on their lives.
3 replies 54 retweets 172 likes -
Replying to @fozmeadows
LBR, in the current US climate, EVEN WITH the most sensitive, humane, intelligent writing, way too many ppl would still root for slavery.
3 replies 13 retweets 74 likes
Telling this sort of story NOW, under these political conditions, is a no-win scenario at best and an irresponsible incitement at worst.
-
-
Replying to @fozmeadows
This is the kind of story you cannot physically tell without hurting the people whose humanity it is most ostensibly meant to validate.
1 reply 13 retweets 69 likes -
Replying to @fozmeadows
With the best will in the world, no. A THOUSAND TIMES NO. It's a fucking red flag at all the armed, angry racists who WANT that world -
1 reply 8 retweets 70 likes - Show replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.