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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
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[–] mika_mika@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

I don't think this is fair. Even the concept of society labeling "thirds" is portrayed as something disturbing.

And the sociopath brother becomes the hegemon of the planet earth if I recall correctly, and this also is not a good thing, but more seen as a dystopia reality. The military isn't seen as good, but manipulative.

Are the children bred as soldiers or to be leaders in society ever portrayed as good? it reads as tragic.

Is Hitler the queen of the hive in your eyes or Peter? Because Peter definitely isn't seen as positive and the hive is a different form of existence that eventually leads to the message that different species despite all origins or existence in a hypothetical can eventually come to coexist if mutual understanding is somehow found.

(I'm queer and Card is a bigot who can eat it, but I don't think any of it really shows in his writing.)

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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Is Hitler the queen of the hive in your eyes or Peter?

The question is whether you can commit genocide/xenocide and still be forgiven, and it's a theme that the series touches on over and over. The most famous genocide today is the Holocaust, so critics of Card phrase it as whether you can forgive Hitler.

I'm sure that Card has spoken specifically about this subject (whether he thinks people should forgive Hitler), as well, and while I think I remember what he said, I'm not so sure that I would simply say it.

But he's got a history of making some provocative statements about his beliefs.

Like, he has said that an important part of his books is to spread Mormon beliefs. I remember, after reading the Ender series, I read The Worthing Saga, and midway through, felt it necessary to go look up which religion he belonged to, just because he made it so obvious that he was criticizing Christian religions. (If I remember correctly, I didn't have to look hard to find his religion, because it was in his biography on the book jacket.)

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