mekka okereke 1d ago

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116290338892571761

🤦🏿‍♂️Actually, nevermind.

Why is everything like this?

The author supposedly went on an anti-woke, right-wing podcast to promote the movie while trashing other books and movies that do have a "woke" message or that have inclusive representation? But... why?

Why was that necessary?

Show threadKrzysztof Sakrejda1d ago
@mekkaokereke I guess it was important to show people that even though it resembles a great story it just has no depth, the author has no spine, and he lacks the intellectual ability to live in the present moment.
Show threadOggie

@wronglang @mekkaokereke
I just reread this book very recently ( before the movie came out), and the book is absolutely political.

It has a lot to say on the strength of education, science, faith in the goodness of people, drives, and is extremely heavy ( kinda unrealisticly so) on anti censorship and similar.

It he wants to pretend those aren't political things, so be it, but really it's just I want to not be noticed. Shame nobody brings up the chapters (multiple) on climate change.

Mar 28 at 1:32pmWeb
Show threadKrzysztof Sakrejda1d ago
@Oggie @mekkaokereke it's definitely his choice if he thinks the fasc need to see his book/movie more than mastodon so I'm just straight up mourning his failure as a public figure in the context of work I was ready to like. The fasc will happily reinterpret all those positives in their own framework (overpopulation panic, woke censorship, white replacement theory, etc...), so I just think he's doing the work a disservice.
Show threadOggie1d ago

@wronglang @mekkaokereke

Oh yes, I probably could have been more explicit in my condemnation of this horrible behavior from him, I just was trying to point out that he very much was including things they would have a problem with, but pretending there was no message because he didn't have any characters who were infected with the gay, etc.

I am extremely disappointed in him.