- Joined
- Mar 10, 2013
There’s a huge difference between what people like Jim and normal non woke people consider fascist and that’s mainly due to intersectional feminism/critical race theory style thinking that’s been imported from America where unless you believe it 100% and are actively apologising and ‘trying to be better’ because you’re white or cis or whatever then you’re a fascist and you’re particularly bad if you’re a boomer blissfully ignorant of those ideologies going about their day treating everyone the same regardless of their race or gender identity and believe privilege is based on social class/wealth.It was nice to see a kids show written with care that wasn’t about “trauma” or “epic secretly dark lore!” Really bugs me I can’t find the second half of the series here in Oz. Even pirated. Guess there isn’t much demand for a low key kids show canned in its second series.
Reminds me of my granddad. Eighty-something, part of that hilarious genre of “literal World War 2 refugee who hates refugees” thought the gay marriage plebiscite was a travesty. Not because he had anything against gays, but because he thought straight people having a say in whether gays can get married or not was immoral. Old folk can surprise you.
“I know a lot of ninety and a hundred year olds, and as we all know, there were no Union Jacks or joyful displays of patriotism on VE Day. Everyone just sat down for a struggle session about the fascist within.”
You know, BritBong midwits love saying Britain has never confronted its own flirtations with fascism, yet every second British science fiction piece is about that. V For Vendetta, 1984, Years and Years, Privilege, multiple episodes of Doctor Who, hell, even that We Happy Few game that shot itself in the foot with procedural generation was explicitly about Britain sliding into authoritarianism after World War 2. It’s almost as though British culture isn’t as stupid and un-introspective as Stirling thinks. Perhaps that’s even why a lot of intellectuals and ordinary people there don’t look at at him and see a bewitchingly strange, enigmatic defiance of gender norms, but instead a fat man in a hat. Actually, come to to think of it, he kind of looks like theFat Controller if he went middle aged troon.
If Jim was more positive and didn’t have the victim complex or passive aggressive nature he’d probably be admired in Britain for being a self made man (Well, tranny) who became relatively successful despite his upbringing.