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Post #1094412

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yhwx
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Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Date created
2-Aug-2017, 4:04 PM

Warbler said:

DominicCobb said:

Personally I think the outrage is pretty premature. But the best I can tell there is at least one legitimate criticism of the concept (rather than the nonexistent execution). Essentially, the idea being that showing an alternate history where things are worse to some extent absolves the problems of the present (as opposed to a future story where things are worse, which would be a cautionary tale). Basically it’s a thing where you can point to it and say “look how much worse race relations could be, so don’t complain!”

  1. I have no idea if there is any intent whatsoever by the series creators to try to absolve the problems of the present or to say that people shouldn’t complain now. I have no idea as to what political positions the creators of the show hold.

  2. I don’t think the Nazi takes place in an alternative future.

  3. I am not sure understand what you are saying here

I think he’s trying to say that this show will belittle the problems of now by showing how much worse it could have been. It might read as trying to shut up people who have problems with race relations now.

Also, I’m not sure what the writers/directors intend matters here. It’s how it reads off to the viewer.