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giftedpoison · 6 months

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I still think about this one tiktoker (that i have literal beef with who i have blocked now) who tried to say that dystopian literature was an inherently American genre and thereby she had come to this groundbreaking conclusion that America is a dystopia.

And when I pointed out other countries have a myriad of dystopian literature (with examples) they said "right but it's not as many as Americans"

And they just kept pushing the narrative that America is uniquely awful.

And every time i think about it I want to scream.

#like slow clap thank you so much for being a fucking american idiot #and no one would listen to me in the comments either i got fucking dogpiled because i suggested america is not uniquely awful #like my brother in christ have you not heard of Britain #I'm not gonna list all the countries that are just as awful as america but if you know you know #dystopian literature #its almost like the point of dystopian literature is to critique modern society or something #and like yeah some societys might not have a lot of dystopian literature but that's when you might want to look into different countries #censorship laws not conclude that america is uniquely awful because it isn't despite it also be incredibly awful #it is important to understand how other countries are awful and how they were fought against so we can borrow ideas and methods #similar to how BLM learned helpful tips from palestinians in regards to protesting and tear gas #literature #dystopian #dystopia #america #this happened a few months ago but every so often i remember

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