My knee jerk reaction to the title was a strong feeling that racist, sexist, and ageist tropes absolutely should be sanitized out of fairy tails. But this article discusses a different kind of sanitizing, and i feel more comfortable with its premise.
i don’t think this is a fair comparison to sanitizing racism.
it would be more like if we taught the story of the Nazis from the perspective of Nazism as wrongfully defeated. we certainly do sanitize narratives of history so the victors are the good guys
yeah and both ways are wrong.
I have as much in common with the the german nazis as i have with the japanese war crimes with the chinese and i am german.
We should have strived for understanding that racism is to be fought against and not "hey these countries are bad because they lost"
If you have seen the horrors what the americans did to the vietnamese or other way around, or the serbs against their neighbors the bosnians, you come to the conclusion every country is shit.
We need to understand as a species that in order to evolve, we need to break out of the violence and dumb wars, over resources.
We have so much potential and we are wasting it, because of stupid and greedy people pushing misery and hate. Don't get me started on religion
> My knee jerk reaction to the title was a strong feeling that racist, sexist, and ageist tropes absolutely should be
How can we ever have our utopia, if there are hints in centuries-old stories that people were once racist or "ageist"? Why can Winston not stuff all these fairy tales down the memory hole?
