Don’t worry everyone, I’m sure someone somewhere is worse and that makes this okay somehow.

  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    The French Revolution was well documented and people still enjoy A Tale of Two Cities

    Are you saying we don’t need any fiction - novels, tv, movies, jokes, comics, memes… because there exists non-fiction versions?

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      7 months ago

      I think you and the others trying to pass off the same idea don’t seem to understand the problem here. It’s not that you can’t have satire, or fiction that acts as a social commentary. It’s that all of the examples you are mentioning aren’t trying to pass themselves off as reality . Nobody reads A Tale of Two Cities and thinks that it is literal. Or A Modest Proposal. This here is trying to pass itself off as real and as soon as it gets called out for it, the choir shows up to say “Oh, so we can’t have satire anymore”.