#ps im an american and i know this without spontaneously combusting so being an american isnt an excuse :3c

[winterbirb]

Oh come on. @weiszklee You don't get to get on a high horse about other people engaging with media if you read this post and came away thinking the only takeaway the previous people had was that "society is imperialistic." Or that noticing the status quo of imperialism is a "bludgeon" used to target specific things.

This is a conversation about general trends and what those trends say about society. The trend being focused on is related to the effects of IRL imperialism on European cuisine being completely, utterly neglected in the fantasy genre. You do not get to walk into somebody else's specific thesis statement and criticize them for not being broader. What is your problem?

And, just, come on. "Society is imperialistic" isn't the conclusion, it's the basic starting point. Why on earth are you acting like it's the conclusion anyone's coming to? Do you know how to read?

AND! To call discussions of imperialism a bludgeon, just what? The post is writing about real patterns that happen. Pointing out that something is part of a pattern is only a bludgeon to the willfully ignorant.

And yeah, some fantasy authors don't give a damn about how anything in their world works. Frankly, I don't consider them very good authors in general. Calling out how they fit into the cultural pattern of not understanding at all how European culture was changed by the age of imperialism is like calling out shit for stinking. It stinking isn't anything of note. It's shit. Ooooh, great argument, some people write shit.

Your analysis is not sophisticated or clever. It is myopic and incurious. If you're going to be a condescending douchebag, do everyone a favor and at least get some reading comprehension and contextualization first instead of assuming the people you're responding to are googoo gaga idiots whose entire analytical interest is contained entirely within a single post specifically created about a single subject.

Tldr the above ppl are just describing a thing that happens that reflects the real world. Why did you write all that.

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