coeliacmccarthy [he/him] to literature • 8 months agoWhy Don't We Just Kill The Kid In The Omelas Hole, by Isabel K Kimexternal-linkmessage-square32 fedilinkarrow-up135file-text
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minus-squarezifnab25 [he/him, any]hexbear15·8 months agoOr the Texas border. Or Haiti. Or Jakarta. Or... But its tangential in the end, because the whole point is that it IS just a thing we talk about obliquely. Not something we confront. link
minus-squareHumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]hexbear13·8 months agogenuinely sus that she just skipped over the one that is dominating the news, ongoing, and actually real link
minus-squareSSJ2Marxhexbear7·8 months agoThe whole time reading it I was thinking that the kids dying was an explicit reference to Gaza and that Omelas was Israel, but I guess not. link
Or Palestine
Or the Texas border. Or Haiti. Or Jakarta. Or...
But its tangential in the end, because the whole point is that it IS just a thing we talk about obliquely. Not something we confront.
genuinely sus that she just skipped over the one that is dominating the news, ongoing, and actually real
The whole time reading it I was thinking that the kids dying was an explicit reference to Gaza and that Omelas was Israel, but I guess not.