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8:47am July 12, 2013

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josiahd:

Orson Scott Card hates gay men, and goes out of his way to prevent gay men from having good lives. (All of his policies are at least as harmful to lesbians, but he doesn’t seem to be aware that lesbians exist.)

But he’s also really racist and that shows up in every one of his books I’ve read….

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    I mean, I think why people like it so much is due to abuse culture. Ender’s Game tells you that 1. The people who abuse...
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  10. doctorgaylove said: I’ve only read Ender’s Game but I also thought it was bizarrely racist and anti-Semitic.
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  13. alliecat-person said: Not defending OSC, but I never interpreted Ender’s Game as being “this is how things should be.” I see the horror as quite intentional.
  14. transponderer said: I don’t think I’ve seen anyone denying that it is a horrifying story though? People can enjoy (in some literary sense) a story even if the events it describes are horrific.
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