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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Hmm? What's your point?
That is the kind of relationship to an idea that Liz Lutgendorff seems to object to, at least going by, say, her attack of Mistborn. 
Many books portray an unjust society... because they are meant to portray the unjustness.  And apparently she finds that "shockingly offensive" too. |
MikeB1972's comment (rhetorically) asked if people who liked the Ancillary trilogy meant that they approved of the unjust society depicted in it. The people who like the story may just be in agreement with Breq's increasing disapproval of it. Should we like books portraying an unjust society? Maybe. Are the characters oblivious to the unjustness, are they in favor, are they railing against it, or just feel powerless to affect the unjustness? I'm assuming that matters to LL, to a certain extent, I think it matters to me. I don't know whether LL commented on
1984, but if she finds it shockingly offensive because of the unjust society, she's missing the point.