I'm being forced to watch "True Blood" (in the middle of S1 atm) against my will
and this reminds me of that. Some of the way vampires are discriminated against seem to be metaphors or based on actual discrimination real minorities face (Antisemitism, PoC, LGBT, etc.). It seems like a "let's do a fictional minority that's discriminated against, except the violent/satanic/predator stereotypes are actually true". I don't know what direction they're about to go into, so it comes across as problematic. I'm curious what kind of principled hardline theory some of the brainpilled leftists have to say about this.
I like True Blood. Its good slop. And youve already seen one of my favorite TV scenes ever (The AIDs burger scene).
But yeah vampires = real world minorities might be even messier than the mutant metaphor. Mutants arent fighting an inherent instinct to kill like True Blood vampires are.
True Blood is truly the most insane version of this. The vampires are so absurdly murderous, and they actually have their own secret world government. And they just keep using them as a metaphore for queer people! They're trying to combine "Isn't discrimination based on lifestyle bad?" with "This is the LGBTQ viceroy of Arizona. He has killed 542 people for fun.".
I'm being forced to watch "True Blood" (in the middle of S1 atm) against my will and this reminds me of that. Some of the way vampires are discriminated against seem to be metaphors or based on actual discrimination real minorities face (Antisemitism, PoC, LGBT, etc.). It seems like a "let's do a fictional minority that's discriminated against, except the violent/satanic/predator stereotypes are actually true". I don't know what direction they're about to go into, so it comes across as problematic. I'm curious what kind of principled hardline theory some of the brainpilled leftists have to say about this.
I like True Blood. Its good slop. And youve already seen one of my favorite TV scenes ever (The AIDs burger scene).
But yeah vampires = real world minorities might be even messier than the mutant metaphor. Mutants arent fighting an inherent instinct to kill like True Blood vampires are.
This is a criticism of attack on titan I've seen around as well.
True Blood is truly the most insane version of this. The vampires are so absurdly murderous, and they actually have their own secret world government. And they just keep using them as a metaphore for queer people! They're trying to combine "Isn't discrimination based on lifestyle bad?" with "This is the LGBTQ viceroy of Arizona. He has killed 542 people for fun.".
Chaya Raichik's unironic belief.