tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518122161715399657.post7010042198375362924..comments2023-08-06T10:03:00.038-05:00Comments on POSSIBLY IRRITATING ESSAYS: Where Writing, Christianity, and Speculative Fiction Interact : Ideas on Tuesday 34GuyStewarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01268114053763665577noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518122161715399657.post-56532529352643883122011-10-23T14:49:29.346-05:002011-10-23T14:49:29.346-05:00I think you read far, far too much into this. Fine...I think you read far, far too much into this. Fine - substitute white male writers. Substitute all Cooper graduates.<br /><br />The point was to take something absurd and play around with it. Take big, old, fat, white former-science teachers who are counselors and assume they are the direct descendants of aliens with technology so advanced that it makes an ipod look like a flint spearhead.<br /><br />Whatever.<br /><br />But be careful who you accuse of being a "racist". Here's the definition: "...structural inequalities in society result(ing) in differential access to and distribution of power (economic, political, social, and cultural) for groups of people." (http://www.antiracistalliance.com/). How was the idea racist?GuyStewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01268114053763665577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5518122161715399657.post-30888691293130438932011-10-23T11:05:41.915-05:002011-10-23T11:05:41.915-05:00I hope you can see how profoundly racist this idea...I hope you can see how profoundly racist this idea is. What if, instead of Australian Aborigines we said white male writers. I'm pretty sure the only way you could explain _those_ people is if we said they were aliens. They certianly aren't human - look at the "magic" way they use their pens. Waaay too far advanced for their time by at least dozens of years.<br /><br />Listen, world of believers, unless a people have an alloy more sophisticated than _our_ current technology, then there is no way technology was shared by space faring aliens. ... If you, for example, were a space faring alien you wouldn't create a new forge. You'd give them an iPhone and a flesh eating disease that had no natural way to be controlled.Michael Foxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15153547490065160857noreply@blogger.com