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Another L for bigotry (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I love Handmaid's Tale, I suggest you reading Persepolis as well, this is one is a true history though.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've read Persepolis. I'm struggling to understand what point you're trying to make.

If it's that Handmaid's Tale is unrealistic, then you're just wrong. Margaret Atwood specifically made sure only to include things that people have already done (almost always in the name of religion). Here's a quote from her about it:

The thing to remember is that there is nothing new about the society depicted in The Handmaid's Tale except the time and place. All of the things I have written about have been done before, more than once.

https://deadline.com/2018/07/handmaids-tale-margaret-atwood-masterclass-writing-class-bad-things-really-happened-1202424424/

“When I wrote The Handmaid’s Tale,” Atwood says in the promo, “nothing went into it that had not happened in real life somewhere at some time. The reason I made that rule is that I didn’t want anybody saying, ‘You certainly have an evil imagination, you made up all these bad things.’

“I didn’t make them up.”

https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/articles/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-testaments-real-life-inspiration

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My point is that what we fear bible‑thumpers can do, qur’an‑thumpers are already doing in several parts of the world, so they must be treated as an equal threat.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

so they must be treated as an equal threat.

Oh. Then I guess we agree lol.

I was just reading your arguments as "Christianity is better because they don't do bad things"