SU goes out of its way to show evidence of Diamond war crimes like fusing shattered gem fragments together into Cronenberg-esque abominations and using a giant cluster of said gem fragments as a bomb to nuke Earth from the inside. They terraform planets to drive out all traces of organic life. The power of friendship isn't gonna fix that shit, and to conveniently write the story such that the only solution to gem corruption entails mutual cooperation and reconciliation between the Crystal Gems and the Diamonds is peak class-collaborationist lib shit, and as Lily Orchard argued, de-facto apologia for genociders on the macro scale and apologia for abusers on the micro scale.
If literal kindergarteners can sit down and watch Episode 4 of Star Wars and get on board with rooting for Luke and his friends to kick Vader's ass and shoot at storm troopers after seeing the Death Star blow up Leia's home planet, even if they can't fully grasp the gravity and magnitude of that sort of violence, they can absorb the lesson that the Diamond authority can and must be violently smashed on every planet they've ever colonized. I've heard the "it's for kids" excuse already and it's bullshit. The message that everything can be fixed through love and mutual understanding is simply wrong and arguably harmful to internalize. If the Diamonds existed in real life they wouldn't change their fucking minds after a few short conversations just because one of them larped as a class traitor and ditched the others, when irreconcilable class antagonism is in the way.
SU goes out of its way to show evidence of Diamond war crimes like fusing shattered gem fragments together into Cronenberg-esque abominations and using a giant cluster of said gem fragments as a bomb to nuke Earth from the inside. They terraform planets to drive out all traces of organic life. The power of friendship isn't gonna fix that shit, and to conveniently write the story such that the only solution to gem corruption entails mutual cooperation and reconciliation between the Crystal Gems and the Diamonds is peak class-collaborationist lib shit, and as Lily Orchard argued, de-facto apologia for genociders on the macro scale and apologia for abusers on the micro scale.
If literal kindergarteners can sit down and watch Episode 4 of Star Wars and get on board with rooting for Luke and his friends to kick Vader's ass and shoot at storm troopers after seeing the Death Star blow up Leia's home planet, even if they can't fully grasp the gravity and magnitude of that sort of violence, they can absorb the lesson that the Diamond authority can and must be violently smashed on every planet they've ever colonized. I've heard the "it's for kids" excuse already and it's bullshit. The message that everything can be fixed through love and mutual understanding is simply wrong and arguably harmful to internalize. If the Diamonds existed in real life they wouldn't change their fucking minds after a few short conversations just because one of them larped as a class traitor and ditched the others, when irreconcilable class antagonism is in the way.