[Dragaera] Liberals

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It's an historical question. In fact, I have no doubt whatever that there
are intellectual luke-warm sympathizers of the Teckla, but there's no way
Vlad would have encountered them. And rich liberals, while occasionally
giving money to social critics, never give money to revolutionists--for
the very good reason that they are among the targets.

> The recent mentions of social justice at our author's blog have made me
> notice that there are no liberals in Dragaera.  Nobody renounces their
> House and marches with the Teckla, we hear nothing about any wealthy
> sympathizers funding Kelly, there's no Eastern Martin Luther King, nobody
> says, "Though we must deplore the rioters' methods, the riots are a
> clarion call for justice that the Empire cannot ignore."  Have I missed
> something?
>
> Both Will Shetterly and Steven told me at
> <http://dreamcafe.com/2014/11/08/on-art-and-politics-and-silencing/#comment-20709>
> that social justice in the narrow Dorothy Day sense is impossible on
> Dragaera, but are the things I described impossible there?  Could I be
> right in speculating that Steven prefers to imagine a world without them?
>
> (Full disclosure: I knew just about nothing about Dorothy Day until now,
> and now all I know is most of what's in the Wikiparticle about her.  In
> her mature years, she opposed Communism.)
>
> Jerry Friedman
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