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 threadLa Guiri1d ago

@wronglang @mekkaokereke when you said that "the author has no spine" I remembered something. I liked the film "The Martian in spite of the obvious political message of one good man surviving "in the wild".

but then I read that it was a book adaptation and you could get it with or without swearwords, the censored version being for schools.

You just have to be very shortsighted not to realise you're writing educational YA and adapt your style accordingly (or you just despise YA readership)... or you just have no style and no respect for your finished work, just dollar signs for eyes.

Show threadKrzysztof Sakrejda1d ago
@laguiri @mekkaokereke I imagine the reason this happened is he was nudged by the publisher to go make the book/movie well received by fascists and he was just a little too excited to comply and not principled enough to say "guys, it's a book, you have to interpret it yourself". He had many ways to avoid this but he chose to prioritize the 🤑
Show threadQueen of Anxiety

@wronglang @laguiri @mekkaokereke Except there are fewer fascists than non. If I ever get the chance, I would go on the wokest podcasts and talk about how the lack of intellectual curiosity on the right is a sign of why they think they need someone to tell them what to do.

(If I didn’t chicken out anyway.)

Mar 28 at 1:44pmWeb
Show threadKrzysztof Sakrejda1d ago
@queenofnewyork @laguiri @mekkaokereke it's definitely a group of people who were taught the patriarchy, swallowed it whole, and are now perpetually looking for daddy. They likely just need direction and they'd behave (as in so their daily jobs and not start wars in the middle east) but they'd always be susceptible to the next talking head who feeds on their racism and xenophobia.
Show threadQueen of Anxiety23h ago
@wronglang @laguiri @mekkaokereke I think there's at least a subsection of them that think they will be the ones giving the orders. But yet, there's a lot more that do seem to just want someone to tell them what to do so they don't have to make the scary decisions themselves. Which I can sympathize with to a point. But not the point that it hurts other people!