Interesting sidenote: I'm writing a science fiction book about a society where affirmative action eventually destroys life on Earth from weak female and minority leaders taking over and turning themselves into dictators.
Just this very concept has caused multiple editors to refuse to work with me, not because of anything I've done but the very idea that women and minorities could fail is so offensive to them that they don't want to be involved.
It is so bizarre how people refuse to acknowledge the concept that affirmative action could lead to shitty, incompetent people holding power. That's literally how it is designed, to push the worst up simply because of their skin color.
If we can't even criticize it in FICTION what the fuck does that say about the entire concept?
Idiocracy was mostly just blood libel against Appalachian whites. In reality, our “stupid future” will be the direct result of mass immigration of low IQ non-whites.
On the one hand, it is an obvious critique of 2000sAmerica and its conspicuous consumption. On the other, give it a rewatch and look at how.... diverse and debased the population of 2500s America is.
It's ripe for a reactionary reading. Free idea up for grabs for anyone
It was only accidentally based, and that Appalachian bit is one of the early SJW compromises. They weren't about to show America get dumber by the proliferation of Tyrones. The predictive part was just, well, predictive. You don't have to subscribe to any particular ideology to poke fun at that.
Continuations of trends that were going on at the time. The mainstreaming of AAVE, as it were, was ongoing, as were efforts to implement socialized medicine.
Interesting sidenote: I'm writing a science fiction book about a society where affirmative action eventually destroys life on Earth from weak female and minority leaders taking over and turning themselves into dictators.
Just this very concept has caused multiple editors to refuse to work with me, not because of anything I've done but the very idea that women and minorities could fail is so offensive to them that they don't want to be involved.
It is so bizarre how people refuse to acknowledge the concept that affirmative action could lead to shitty, incompetent people holding power. That's literally how it is designed, to push the worst up simply because of their skin color.
If we can't even criticize it in FICTION what the fuck does that say about the entire concept?
Even though Idiocracy said it was like that.
Idiocracy was mostly just blood libel against Appalachian whites. In reality, our “stupid future” will be the direct result of mass immigration of low IQ non-whites.
On the one hand, it is an obvious critique of 2000sAmerica and its conspicuous consumption. On the other, give it a rewatch and look at how.... diverse and debased the population of 2500s America is.
It's ripe for a reactionary reading. Free idea up for grabs for anyone
It was only accidentally based, and that Appalachian bit is one of the early SJW compromises. They weren't about to show America get dumber by the proliferation of Tyrones. The predictive part was just, well, predictive. You don't have to subscribe to any particular ideology to poke fun at that.
Language is inner city
Socialized medicine
Continuations of trends that were going on at the time. The mainstreaming of AAVE, as it were, was ongoing, as were efforts to implement socialized medicine.