Post #4249097

This is continuing to bother me. Like, I try to cut out of my life a lot of things because they have troubling associations, and I've talked about that more than once. I've wrestled with my enthusiasm for space travel fantasy, since it's a genre that has roots in colonialism, and real-world space exploration has been significantly influenced by Nazis, literally. But, lots of good people enjoy space fantasies, so there's got to be something redeemable about it, right? There's some conservative sentiment among a lot of SE players, in particular a fondness for military imagery. There was a bit of conflict about adding a female character model, but, most favored that, and the publisher eventually did. But, it's really hard to get around the far right allusions in Marek Rosa's biography. The best alternative I can think of, probably better than cutting a hobby out of my life, is to find some way to explicitly express anti-fascism and radical leftism. I'll just have to work out how.