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Piga Dgrifm said:
"Reblog if you'd read a book with:
A latino main character."

Yeah, sure, whatever.

"Trans feminine nonbinary main character who uses multiple pronouns including neopronouns."

Lol, bye Felicia.
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Hell, give me a good story with a minority that doesn't regurgitate SJW talking-points (or better yet, defies them) and I'll read the shit out of that.

That's the problem, really. Social Justice shit has become so common that the minute you see that the character has some sort of minority status you start getting wary about how the book is going to preach to you. I know what's coming, so why bother?
 
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kidsquid said:
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What's the plot, though. What happens? I don't give a damn about these characters - what's the story about?
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There's no plot, the book is just a list of labels.

Here's an idea, though:
"Trans feminine nonbinary main character who uses multiple pronouns including neopronouns."
That would be an interesting linguistic experiment. Imagine a book where you have a few characters whose pronouns change every time they're referred to. You can't rely on language, you have to use other clues to determine who's doing what to whom. Truly the Finnegans Wake of our times.
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QuokkaCaptain said:
Hell, give me a good story with a minority that doesn't regurgitate SJW talking-points (or better yet, defies them) and I'll read the shit out of that.
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I wish someone with decent name recognition would write a book with, like, trans, gay, or POC characters that go against the modern SocJus IdPol silliness, just to watch the shitstorm that would ignite on book-Twitter. But, folks who get published by large publishing houses have to toe the line and unfortunately a self-published author would be unlikely to get that kind of attention. (And I'd feel worse about the inevitable dogpiling if they didn't have fuck-you levels of money.)
 
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Piga Dgrifm said:
I wish someone with decent name recognition would write a book with, like, trans, gay, or POC characters that go against the modern SocJus IdPol silliness, just to watch the shitstorm that would ignite on book-Twitter. But, folks who get published by large publishing houses have to toe the line and unfortunately a self-published author would be unlikely to get that kind of attention. (And I'd feel worse about the inevitable dogpiling if they didn't have fuck-you levels of money.)
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You mean something like, say, a black main character who judges people on the content of their character and rejects identity politics as corrosive and toxic, and is opposed by a black villain who advocates race warfare, engages in appropriation of other cultures, and repeatedly hurts other black people and destroys black cultures in the name of his war on whitey?

Sounds like a good idea. I'm sure no one would wind up identifying with the villain and declaring him right all along instead.
 
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Jigglyjogglers said:
You mean something like, say, a black main character who judges people on the content of their character and rejects identity politics as corrosive and toxic, and is opposed by a black villain who advocates race warfare, engages in appropriation of other cultures, and repeatedly hurts other black people and destroys black cultures in the name of his war on whitey?

Sounds like a good idea. I'm sure no one would wind up identifying with the villain and declaring him right all along instead.
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Cough Black Panther Cough
 
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Better be careful, black people decided they liked Naruto and now it's not cool to hate on it. Same thing happened to DBZ, all these big muscley ink black motherfuckers on twitter going around wearing orange gis and talking about practicing their kamehamehas and suddenly it's not cool to make jokes about powerup sequences looking like constipation anymore.
 
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Jigglyjogglers said:
Better be careful, black people decided they liked Naruto and now it's not cool to hate on it. Same thing happened to DBZ, all these big muscley ink black motherfuckers on twitter going around wearing orange gis and talking about practicing their kamehamehas and suddenly it's not cool to make jokes about powerup sequences looking like constipation anymore.
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Really? I've never seen someone make that kind of argument against making fun of weebs.
 
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Nauseated Courgi said:
Really? I've never seen someone make that kind of argument against making fun of weebs.
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No one makes the argument explicitly. It's simply that pop culture becomes cool/Not Cringe when black people visibly like it in large numbers, as one of those unspoken things. This is the first anti-Naruto stuff I've seen in a long time when it used to be almost everywhere. Similarly virtually all mockery of DBZ has ceased, most references to it now are as if it's a cool awesome thing that it's okay to like (if perhaps a tad ironically, like DBZA.)

When black dudes dress up as something for one of their Random Dance-Fighting Videos, it's simply understood that mainstream nerd culture is no longer supposed to mock that thing. DBZ, Naruto, Power Rangers, Spongebob, hell friggin' Rugrats, if black guys on Twitter like it it suddenly becomes acceptable for grown men to wear its merch in public. I'm not even gonna try and launch into the sociological foundations behind it I'm just pointing out an observation that became clear to me years ago.
 
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Jigglyjogglers said:
No one makes the argument explicitly. It's simply that pop culture becomes cool/Not Cringe when black people visibly like it in large numbers, as one of those unspoken things. This is the first anti-Naruto stuff I've seen in a long time when it used to be almost everywhere. Similarly virtually all mockery of DBZ has ceased, most references to it now are as if it's a cool awesome thing that it's okay to like (if perhaps a tad ironically, like DBZA.)

When black dudes dress up as something for one of their Random Dance-Fighting Videos, it's simply understood that mainstream nerd culture is no longer supposed to mock that thing. DBZ, Naruto, Power Rangers, Spongebob, hell friggin' Rugrats, if black guys on Twitter like it it suddenly becomes acceptable for grown men to wear its merch in public. I'm not even gonna try and launch into the sociological foundations behind it I'm just pointing out an observation that became clear to me years ago.
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Or maybe it's because once people who really aren't into nerdy shit like ghetto dudes, you know it's hit the mainstream and not a niche thing anymore? I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with them being black
 
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