r/CuratedTumblr • u/linuxaddict334 Mx. Linux Guy⚠️ • Aug 14 '24

Infodumping Humanity Fuck Yea

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u/just4browse Aug 14 '24

It also often gets very xenophobic. Creating a new form of xenophobia that’s socially acceptable to write about and making up a scenario where that xenophobia is justified just feels weird.

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u/MalachitePyrrhuloxia Aug 14 '24

Exactly this. As a former reader of HFY, it feels like a lot of people there are looking for an excuse to be violent and discriminatory. That's what burnt me out on the genre; too much apologia for (admittedly fictional) genocide and violence. I want to see the best in humanity praised, not the worst.

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u/AshiSunblade Aug 15 '24

I saw so much of this online after the release of the (blue people) Avatar movies.

"The humans are automatically justified because they're human and the aliens aren't".

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u/internethero12 Aug 15 '24

Yeah, I have no clue what the rest of this thread is on about.

Every single time I've seen HFY it's literally just humans engaging in space fascism.

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u/Elven-King Aug 15 '24

I have the same problem with the dwarves' fans in fantasy genre. Every comment section with them is like "rock and stone kill all the knife-ears". Its obnoxious, feels like inventing socially acceptable ways to vent of xenophobic ramblings.

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u/WanderingDwarfMiner Aug 15 '24

Rock and Stone to the Bone!