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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Do you know how much recent global history is shaped by American intervention in overseas affairs? How much the US has meddled?
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If the world of Confederate takes place *during* a Third American Civil War, that implies a century or more of near-constant US conflict.
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If the Union has been fighting a bitter land-war on its own continent against an aggressive neighbour, how much meddling can they have done?
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Which is, yes, a fascinating question. But NOT one that I trust a team of American writers to answer in a non-UScentric way.
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By which I mean: unless Confederate's Union north has nowhere NEAR the US's current global status? That is terrible worldbuilding.
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Unless the parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia that have been DIRECTLY FUCKED UP by US intervention are altered? BAD WORLDBUILDING.
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If the Union somehow ~magically~ has pursued exactly the same foreign policy agendas as the real US to create an identical outside world? NO
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By its very nature, this type of alt-history fucks with US participation in both world wars, never mind shit like the Iran Contra Affair.
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