But oh, no. See, that would be too POLITICAL, bc you'd have to acknowledge how vital Black Lives Matter is & risk angering racist white ppl.
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You'd have to defend punching Richard Spencer, and talk about the difference between fascist & antifa disruption at universities, OH MY!
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You'd have to stop talking about what a snappy dresser Milo Yianoppoulis is, and criticise Trump & Breitbart & their spineless GOP shills.
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Better to tell a story where those pesky modern elements don't exist; where you can pretend there's no link between your world & our now.
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You want to jack off to your jackboot aesthetic, go do it in an alternate fucking universe where you aren't actively making shit worse. FIN
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Jumping back to add: the specific prob with ALT-hist stories, as opposed to dystopias, is that they utterly elide the significance of *now*.
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A story about fascism in the future or near-future which references the present SHOWS US THE CORRELATION BETWEEN NOW AND THEN.
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The Handmaid's Tale is terrifying in part because it's situated as a potential consequence of the PRESENT DAY: what if *WE* let this happen?
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But in alt-Nazi stories, the onus for prevention is in the past. It's all hypothetical: it couldn't REALLY happen like that, b/c it DIDN'T.
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So even if we can recognise similar themes between the alt-world & ours, the immediacy of the threat is defanged, b/c the genesis is wrong.
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It pretends that a fascist present or fascist future could only REALLY happen if we had a different past. It denies the current trajectory.
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This is why I'm not here for Confederate, or The Man in the High Castle, or HydraCap, or any of this new DC nonsense. It is a PATTERN.
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And more, it's a not-so-covert opportunity to actively MARKET FASCISM, like that time Marvel wanted comic shops to sell HydraCap merch.
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