[ SECRET POST #5213 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5213 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 15 secrets from Secret Submission Post #746.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

They’ve got to stop using people with extreme powers who can summon demons and level cities as the oppressed class. It doesn’t work. If you can set someone on fire from across the room with your mind or imbed lyrium into a persons skin to use them as a personal energy source, I think its natural that folks are gonna want some kind of protection against you. Obviously the Templar’s are fucked up, but I also do not trust mages as a class in that series to ever do the right thing.

[(Anonymous)]

This.

Trying to shove a power fantasy and an oppression allegory into the same narrative space is always going to be sort of incoherent and uncomfortable.

A Mythcreants post on this topic exactly

[(Anonymous)]

Just dropping this link here...
https://mythcreants.com/blog/the-problem-with-oppressed-mages/

I think Oren manages to lay out some of the big issues pretty clearly and intelligently.

[feotakahari]

N.K. Jemisin wrote something the other day about how actual racism can work like that. E.g. the idea that the cops just had to shoot that fleeing black man seventeen times, because black men are just so strong and powerful and frightening. Can’t find the post now, for some reason.

[(Anonymous)]

But those are different things? Black men aren't inherently more powerful than white men for real, that's a myth that's just part of the racism. The fictional races this secret and thread are talking about really do have inherent dangerous advantages over their oppressors.