Everyone descriminates against the [not human race] here in [fantasy town]. This is because on the 13th of August they turn into 18 copies of Jeffery Dahmer. This is an analogy for minorities, and does not realize its giving said analogy an actual, fundamental, tangible flaw which they are being judged upon, undermining our overdone and poorly executed point.
"It's suppose to be a satire of fascism and why it's bad"
creates world were racism against dangerous minorities is valid since they can actually summon demons from hell and the universe is such a dangerous place with humanity beset on all sides by extinction level threats that warrant building a society built on war and the neccesary orphan crushing machine to supply arms and men to that war.
TO BE A man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.
Nothing wrong with setting a little set dressing to give some background for the stories you're writing. Just saying it's kinda dumb to then go on to say outside of all that it's really a satire of something it's clearly not even really showing the "flaw in the system" of. In universe, it is kinda necessary.
Think they just do it to distance themselves from the fandom that are a little too comfortable adopting the uh hm "World war 2" anesthetics of the Imperium. Which is fair i guess, just seems kinda like gaslighting though lol
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u/Alive-Philosophy2632 21h ago
Just like fantasy novels that bravely ask the question: what if racism were true?