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Fifth Famous wrote: Unbreakable Josuke Higashikata99 wrote: From Ship of the Dead:

“Alex perused the titles on the bookshelves.

“Anything good?” I asked.

He shrugged. “The Lord of the Rings. Not bad. Sylvia Plath. Nice. Oh, The Left Hand of Darkness. I love that book. The rest…meh. His collection is a little heavy on dead white males for my taste.”

I suppose this is meant to be a joke, but the political nature of Alex (Keep in mind this is VERY  early in SotD before the development, so Alex is still on the heels of being a divisive figure.) makes it a little hard to see it as such. I think I get the intended joke. Early European historians used to often portray the native culture of the place they are invading/colonizing as lower than their own. Since Alex is technically Mexican, and invading (US).... well, maybe I am overthinking it.

Again, I suppose it’s meant to be a joke but Alex was already on thin ice with people who didn’t like her introduction in HoT and thus seeing that joke could have turned people off of the story/book, because it wasn’t funny.

I’m not white myself, but I rolled my eyes pretty hard at that part.