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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LITERALLY A THING THAT HAPPENED, I'M NOT EVEN KIDDING:http://www.cbr.com/retailer-reaction-secret-empire-hydra-takeover-marketing/ …
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It's not new for companies to sell Bad Guy merch, but when your "fictional" baddies align with IRL ones, you're basically giving them promo.
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Who will take the bet that whatever flag gets designed for the slave-state in
#Confederate gets sold to & worn by actual white supremacists.7 replies 127 retweets 329 likes -
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EVEN IF no official merch was made with the slave-state symbols on it, I can 9000% guarantee you racist fans will make that shit themselves.
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(ICYMI: I have a whole other Confederate-specific twitter-rant here: https://twitter.com/fozmeadows/status/887999249194942464 …)
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At least Joss Whedon had the decency to set his what-if-the-Confederates-won fanfic in space & cut the slavery, but that's a LOW GODDAMN BAR
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(Also, yeah: the Confederacy inspired the Browncoats. For reals! http://mentalfloss.com/article/56022/23-fun-facts-about-firefly …)
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