But in this case we aren't even seeing ableism. This ableist is doing the "I don't like X, but he's one of good ones" bit. The only thing offensive here is that the ableist is admitting their ableism. Is surface level introspection and compartmentalization that offensive?
Sorry I missed that discourse since I was adulting before tumblr was a domain name. Did anyone address at what point a content warning was more triggering than the content?
But let's look at the context here. Of all the people this trash human being is dating, the disabled vet is the most put together of the bunch. This isn't triggering for the disabled, this is uplifting!
Shouldn't you CW that anecdote then? We can't know that someone on the internet didn't just lost a parent or close family member. Acknowledging the existence of dead family jokes might remind them of the pain or trauma they're going through.
But what would a content warning protect here? In this case the content warning is just as graphic as the post! A CW here would probably be even more triggering since it implies something far worse waits behind the trigger warning than an acknowledgement that ableists exist.
Tradcaths are a favorite punching bag of the left, but Mel Gibson and the Little Caesar's owner are just two guys with zero pull. There are dozens of prosperity gospel televangelists that are much more influential in chud circles.
If you really want to break down this book to sus out Liu Cixin's politics then don't let me stop you. I'd be happy to read it, but by this point in this thread, you'll likely only have an audience of one. My concerns would be that it wouldn't be fun, since as you said, this is mid-level sci-fi and I'd say Liu is probably little more than a mid-level thinker. It would be like trying to gain insight into the American condition by examining the depiction of television production in John Scalzi's Redshirts. Very often pop sci-fi is just pop sci-fi.
But moreover, I'm not sure I know enough about Chinese politics to ascertain whether your understanding of it is correct. You said China (or it's populace) is isolationist, but I don't know how to square that interpretation with the Belt and Road Initiative. Likewise you talk about how they feel technologically constrained by the west, but they manufacture all of our consumer products, they're a nuclear power, and they're kicking off another space race. And perhaps Call of Duty is propaganda, but it's very obviously aimed at American audiences and is of little interest to the Chinese. If you had a Korean gatcha game smuggling ideology into communist China I'd be all ears to such an argument, but then again, Genshin is out capitalizing the west better than the capitalists could do to themselves.
Right. But he sent out a message with a set of coordinates and said "watch this space." If the trisolarians already knew then this is sloppy exposition, action taken just for the readers at home.
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