Let's be clear: shoddy worldbuilding is BY NO MEANS the most glaring problem with a modern-day story about ongoing black slavery.
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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.
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LBR, in the current US climate, EVEN WITH the most sensitive, humane, intelligent writing, way too many ppl would still root for slavery.
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Telling this sort of story NOW, under these political conditions, is a no-win scenario at best and an irresponsible incitement at worst.
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This is the kind of story you cannot physically tell without hurting the people whose humanity it is most ostensibly meant to validate.
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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 -
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- but who will likely spit, not fire, but ACTUAL GODDAMN BULLETS at seeing "their people" cast as the villains. Unless "their people" are -
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- so sympathetically cast that they take the show as vindication, and Christ, we DO NOT NEED THAT RIGHT NOW. NOBODY DOES.
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Stories are powerful, and political, and they exist within a fucking real-world context that can produce very real-world consequences.
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This is why the freedom to create stories is always, ALWAYS balanced against taking responsibility for their potential impact.
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This is why stories matter; why we bother arguing about banned books in schools and the importance of criticism; why SOCIAL TIMING MATTERS.
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Plenty of ppl with voices nearer to the issue than my own have discussed and will doubtless keep discussing this issue. LISTEN TO THEM.
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But the 2 cents I'd like particularly to add, to return to the question of the two Koreas, is the matter of alt-history worldbuilding.
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