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Post by poelzig on Aug 21, 2020 2:45:32 GMT
He's definitely a left leaning rich white guy so he checks off all the boxes for issues he has to at least feign concern about. He was called out last year for accidentally saying how he really felt about one of his characters having their race changed and then flip flopped and virtue signaled like a big dog in super cringe fashion. Not an uncommon reaction from a rich white celebrity. They often are unaware of their shameless hypocrisy. Of course that pandering just increased the OUTRAGE from other libs against him He also has always loved the magical negro character in his books and his black characters in general are painfully embarrassing with the exception of Halloran who now that I think of it was still a magical negro. My point is his sincerity about non whites and their issues is suspect but other than my usual distaste for blatant hypocrisy from the left in that area I don't care if he writes white characters better. Not sure if I would call him a feminist but he has never had a problem with writing believable strong capable female characters. His wife for sure is a feminist so he would share some of her beliefs as any caring partner should. His more recent inclusion of gay and trans gendered characters is because his daughter is gay. He is a bit heavy handed in making the gay characters too good to be true but I can understand why he does it. In contrast to his suspect concern for non whites, he seems very sincere about his female characters so I'm going with he's a feminist but not to the point of being a moronic white knight which isn't really a true feminist anyway. I hope that verbose round about post helped. Which of his other books have a magical black character besides The Green Mile? The Shining, The Stand and The Tailsman.
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