Nice read, and i really liked the way you framed the tension than exists at very different levels regarding criticism, i always been of the mind that a creator should try to pursue his vision no matter what (with the obvious limits of hate speech and incitacion to violence of course) because if you don´t do that the end result is going to be poorer, you can´t have an aseptic version of the world, of course it has and need to be criticised at all levels, but you need to have your world view challenged and sometimes you need to feel a little enraged and moved to discuss different points of view, there a lot of themes in wich i changed my mind along the years after being confronted with some harsh realities. I´m all in for inclusion, i work in a mostly female occupation, in the racial sphere i live in the north of spain, and here we have our problems with racism and immigration specially from southamerica, and curiously enough with polish people wich came to work in the mines, (the dudes can drink i tell you, in the place i used to live we were famous drinkers and those dudes sure could keep the pace), and historically with gipsies, gay discrimination, this has changed a lot here with the years thankfully and other nasty issues.
I have digressed a lot, weel like i said, i really liked the way you framed this, yes is complicated, but yes it has to be tackled it, i recently listened to an interview with clive Barker, and he said that, yes a lot has been acomplished but it was not enough untill it was really normalised at all levels, disregarding of course hate groups and extremists, the issue was gay rights by the way, but his attitude is extensible to other similar issues, i think
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