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rhaenin-time · 8 months ago

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If The Hunger Games series was released today, with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes released first, you wouldn't be able to use it as a discussion of colonialism and imperialism because you'd have entire circles of the internet dedicated to proving that the author is wrong and actually Snow is the true victim and screaming "Oh my god this is so disrespectful how dare you bring real world colonialism into your fandom discourse just to justify your faves. Stop moralizing fiction! Now let me tell you about how my meow meow isn't a colonizer and also Katniss is a crazy fascist."

Sidenote: The Hunger Games universe is an amazing distillation of the core-periphery model of colonization and imperialism and I will not shut up about it they should honestly teach it alongside Decolonialism 101 in schools which is why you know they won't.

#the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #fandom discourse #what has happened to the internet #team black #shouldn't even need to be a thing why does it need to be a thing #i just want to talk about the patriarchy without willful misinterpretations you guys!#yes the way Panem works is a little hazy with the lines of colonialism/imperialism because it's lack a settler aspect #But the core-periphery exploitation aspect stands STRONG #In a lot of ways it's more comparable to European colonization of Africa rather than North America which is interesting

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