As a child, I quit reading the Narnias after Lion Witch Wardrobe because I found the Christian stuff icky and morbid. How is this one racist?
Basically, the dark-skinned people, who seem Arabic-ish (scimitars, beards, turbans, deserts, etc.), are shifty and duplicitous and violent, while the light-skinned people (the Narnians) are noble and good.
It really doesn’t help that he dubbed the dark-skinned people the Calormenes, from Calormen.
And even the Calormenes refer to the Narnian “white barbarians” as “accursed but beautiful.” And the plot involves the swarthy Prince Rabadash lusting after the white-English Queen Susan.
OTOH, the white Shasta/Cor runs away with the Calormene noblewoman Aravis and ultimately marries her, so the color-line isn’t necessarily fixed.
You mean it should be the third book? Yeah, I imagine so.
Seems like you’d have to stop Wardrobe, pick up Horse, then switch back to Wardrobe for the end.
The character of Emeth is unimpeachable, and there are suggestions of other decent Calormenes. They’re not orcs of Tolkienic predestination. On the other hand, they practice slavery and their state religion worships a demon.
In the second half of Narnian history, the human population would seem to be largely of Polynesian descent, through the Telmarines.
Somewhere in his attic, there is a painting of Gohmert getting smarter and smarter
These Republicans are killing me. Either they go or I go.
Oscar, is that you?
I laughed out loud, you bastard.
Can we put them all on a space ark and shoot them out of Earth’s atmosphere with Louie Gohmert in the cargo hold?
No, because I want to be on the space ark. You get to keep Gohmert.
Shoulda stopped there, IMO; that’s good absurdist comedic imagery right there, that is.
Oh, yes, that’ll work, that’ll quiet all public demands for gun control immediately and permanently.
So long as it is not a pressurized cargo hold.
That’s why we need good citizens keeping an eye out for algebra scribbling people.
“I’m not racist, I just think Obama is a monkey” isn’t bad enough. Having your party claim Media Matters hacked your Facebook account after you admitted posting it is even worse.
They’re learning from the Trumpster himself;
Don’t just lay down a small little pathetic lie. Go big or go home. When 5,000 show up at your rally, don’t say that the crowd was 20,000 or even 40,000. Claim that** 600,000** wanted to come, but were kept out by Obama’s stormtroopers!
When you post a racist meme, don’t just deny it or apologize. NO! Claim that you’re the victim of a massive left wing conspiracy to DESTROY THE VERY FABRIC OF CIVILIZATION ITSELF!
Fantastic lies! The very best lies! Nobody on earth will have better or huger lies!