Quote from flaming infinity »Honestly, what I think might really help is to actually give racism its platform and let it openly debate its heart out. If no one steps up to debate for the racist perspective, someone should play devil's advocate and really give it its time in the spotlight. So, exactly how well is it going to hold up against the harsh glare of facts?
Easy to say when the actual consequences don't really impact you directly, isn't it? A lot harder to stomach people debating your worth like it's a thought exercise when your day to day is defined by that dehumanization.
You want to debate the merits of racism, by all means have a great time. In private. Don't subject racialized people to it because I don't think they'd appreciate their humanity being up for debate.
The triumph of gay marriage didn't come from banning things. It came from people realizing that "the gays" weren't some evil other that existed somewhere else. Gay people were their friends and family. Gay people were their idols.
Gay rights absolutely progressed because of culture shifts where dehumanization, slurs, and violence were challenged and eventually filtered out of society (mostly). And at every turn, there were people making the same arguments we're seeing here. "Oh, we can't even use the word ****** anymore?? They're so sensitive." "I don't like that people call me a bigot for expressing my beliefs." "The world might censor me, but I still believe they're deviant." "What's next, treating trans people like they aren't crazy??"
Representation was definitely a big part of it, but let's not erase history here. A whole lotta bigots felt some kind of way about society telling them they couldn't treat the gays like second class citizens anymore. Housing and job discrimination had to be legally banned, conversion therapy is still being banned, hate crimes against the community were banned, in my country hate speech target LGBTQ2S+ people was banned, etc. We told everyone else they couldn't do hurtful things to us a lot, actually.
I've actually experienced racist treatment from older black people who I often even ended up becoming friends with.
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Um, you know she was working for Bolas against her will, right? Liliana is one of the good guys, albeit a self-centred and power hungry one. Bolas has control of the pacts she made with the four demons to keep her youth and grant her power, and she was working for him because if he wanted he could snuff her out (in theory) by cancelling the deals. The family who got killed in the trailer looked like her and her brother when they were younger and made her decide that living wasn't worth the damage she was causing.
So it's not that a bad character suddenly changed her mind, it's more she finally decided something was more important than living.
Now, if Tezzeret suddenly turns hero on us, then you can complain.
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It DOES accomplish something. If she's the one controlling Bolas' troops then having her die means Bolas either has to do the job himself or the army is left in chaos. She was working for Bolas because of her fear of dying, so her finally deciding that death is preferable to serving Bolas is pretty big.
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I mean, it's a pretty cheap trick compared to what Yawgmoth pulled off in Apocalypse. Bolas is copying the Phyrexians' homework.
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