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Was reminded of the time a communist in r/writingadvice told me that world building is inherently racist because colonizers would interpret local cultures to fit their fantasies and that sci-fi and fantasy are incapable of speaking to real-world issues.
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When I mentioned 1984 as an easy example of a sci-fi work with implications they went on this whole rant about how George Orwell was a fascist and that only proved that all fiction is inherently racist and the only true storytelling was realistic fiction set in the modern day