#Garaks story arc is so permeated by class violence that even people who preface constantly about not canonizing ASIT adopt some of its clas
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I won't lie the jokes about how Dukat was actually calling Garak a homophobic slur when he said "tailor" like that are disquieting for a few reasons
#Cipher talk#One. The insult is clearly a class thing. He doesn't need to call Garak a slur. His inferiority is self evident in his existence to Dukat.#Garaks story arc is so permeated by class violence that even people who preface constantly about not canonizing ASIT adopt some of its clas#Themes as those were present in the show and developed further by Andy#Like the very idea that Garak was born service class is technically betacanon. It's not mentioned in the show explicitly. But it is a very#Easy and logical progression of how Garak acts in the show and given that Andy had the basis for his backstory early on and wrote part of#ASIT as the show aired that was clearly intended to be his background#But you'll still find old fic where Garak is placed in a higher class position#Acting like he was actually calling him something else to warrant that derision is silly#Like I find being called 'jew' or 'gay' as an insult funny because they're statements of fact but the people doing that consider the fact#Itself to be the insult or are using it as a byword for something (the former was being used to call me a traitor)#And two I just don't know how funny it is to joke about Garak being called a faggot by a fascist
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