It's incredible how fictional villains and empires and stuff end up being very tame compared to those in real life (hexbear.net)

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[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 43 points 8 months ago

Literally me writing the colonial history of my conworld

"You know, that plot point feels just absolutely grotesquely evil. Like a cartoon supervillain mixed with an edgy creepypasta or something. I mean, I know colonialism was fucked up IRL, but this is just so shamelessly and gratuitously violent and inhuman and conniving, spreading an absolutely unspeakable misery and despair across an entire nation, that it just feels kind of... silly and over the top, to be honest. Like, who in real life could really just look his wife in the eyes and sincerely smile after [thing that I would five minutes later discover happened an absolutely staggering number of times in IRL colonialism and was much much much worse than I could've ever possibly imagined]?"

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago

Gotta make it like comically on the nose too to get that real reality vibe

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The people who said that Chancellor Neighsay from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was comically on the nose for season 8's "racism bad" episode do not know how ridiculously accurate it is to depict a settler-colonial power's Overton window as ranging from "even the children of the lesser races are fundamentally dangerous and must be kept in the imperial frontier, poor, illiterate, and ignorant so that they cannot pose a threat to our glorious empire" on the right to "the lesser races can be civilized, they just need to be taken to my residential school to be indoctrinated into our glorious empire's state religion and culture" on the "left"

Infinite genocide on ponydom