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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Aug-2026 20:07:23 JST Rich Felker

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   @yojimbo @seachaint @leadegroot @MostlyDrawing @Unixbigot You don't need intent for that stuff to be racist. If it's not intentional, then it's deeply ingrained, and that probably means you're not fit as an author for children's books.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Aug-2026 21:03:40 JST Rich Felker

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     @fabi1cazenave @yojimbo @seachaint @leadegroot @MostlyDrawing @Unixbigot Maybe I'm missing something (I'm not terribly familiar, never read it or watched any adaptation) about how it's "way worse", but I'm not here for whataboutism. That's its own conversation not a justification for someone else's badness.

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     kazé (fabi1cazenave@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Aug-2026 21:03:41 JST kazé

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     @dalias @yojimbo @seachaint @leadegroot @MostlyDrawing @Unixbigot Sure thing, but Dune is way worse than HP in that regard, and I don’t think it raises that much criticism.

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     Juɦo̞ Mæn̪t̪yˈs̠ɑ̝lo̞ (iju@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Aug-2026 23:55:53 JST Juɦo̞ Mæn̪t̪yˈs̠ɑ̝lo̞

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     @fabi1cazenave

     The point of Dune is to be a dystopia, though. As the story unfolds, every well-meaning character ends up sacrificing not only themselves, but all they hold dear, for the Greater Good.

     Rowling's story is special in that it justified horrible with worse. In that way it's a kin to Norman Spinrad's Iron Dream, which is a pulp-scifi story as written by Adolf Hitler.

     cc: @dalias @yojimbo @seachaint @leadegroot @MostlyDrawing @Unixbigot

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 14-Aug-2026 23:55:53 JST Rich Felker

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     @iju @fabi1cazenave @yojimbo @seachaint @leadegroot @MostlyDrawing @Unixbigot That sounds pretty much like what I expected.