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I'm just a bit weary of radical millennials and the Church of Social Justice tonight. I might just not be one of you; you may just have to deal with it.
Deep down in my heart, I'm a 20th-century British liberal who just happens to really like queers and spends a lot of their time rooting for minorities.
That makes me your ally. It makes me your kind old dotty aunt/uncle. But it doesn't mean I like all your tactics. Or Lenin. >_<
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This was all inspired by feuding with a radical furry kid that, god damn it, I LIKED, over that new "Confederacy" show.
I understand & sympathize with many of the concerns. They're POTENTIALLY very valid. But I still have a very serious personal issue with people slagging creators for their work before they even know what it SAYS-- especially when it's based on "Well, you're the wrong demographic so we KNOW it's gonna pure evil."
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And I like it even less when it's "yes, but it will *inspire* bad people to do bad things." You know, same way Beavis & Butthead would surely inspire a spate of arsons.
Not because race doesn't matter. Not because representation doesn't matter. Not because the South's history isn't (a) shameful (b) woefully overexamined in alternate history for (c) reasons of white American collective consciousness that are pretty damn fucked up...
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And most of all, because I am thinking about actually, gods help me, trying to CREATE something in this shitswamp of a political culture, something that will strike right at the heart of the beast.
And I'm so fucking afraid one of you, maybe even my own friends, will declare me the next Public Enemy -- like that EEEEVIL racist Rebecca Sugar -- for violating some ideological or jargonistic subtlety I didn't even know about.
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And you know what? When I see people demonizing creators just for "making the wrong thing" -- or worse, being the wrong people to even be ALLOWED to try creating something -- it absolutely guts my desire to even bother trying to make it in the first place. Because I know I can't get it perfect, and I know FROM WATCHING IT HAPPEN that perfection is what some parts of the current Left WILL demand. >_<
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Like I said to this kid I was arguing with on over Birdshit, the DAY Confederacy comes out, if it doesn't come down 100% on the side of the abused, enslaved, and oppressed, you have my blessing to absolutely blast it with criticism -- fair criticism that's actually given the creators a chance to anticipate and respond to people's concerns, instead of this borderline "well, we know YOUR kind" bullshit.
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And well, if it happens with Parallax, you've seen me when I feel I've been mistreated or misrepresented. I can take care of myself.
Frankly, some part of me is kinda looking forward to sparring with people over it. Hell, some part of me is looking forward to LOSING, if it's a fair fight.
I don't feel like what's happening to Confederacy is a fair fight. Not unless previews have circulated that I don't know about. >_<
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But because you should at least know what the fuck you're dealing with before you evaluate it. Because I saw this tactic used by fundamentalists over and over and over to suppress dissenting thought. Because I don't want "my side" to become the sort of assholes bashing their equivalent of the Bible and counting the number of "hells" and "damns" in Huck Finn. (Formative real experience from teenaged years-- ask me later.)