More Alan Moore fans argue with black people that the golliwog wasnt racist

It's this weird thing because making realistic and complicated morality doesn't work when it's a world where people can fly. For one, realistic and complicated morality doesn't really matter when people dont apply morality in a day to day basis. For two, realistic morality is subjective when coming from human beings with their own quibbles like a high school dropout who thinks comic writers can just strike to solve all their problems. For three, the lessons about morality don't really ring inherently as soon as you import them into sci-fi fantasy settings. To Kill a Mockingbird would be less potent as a story if it had aliens, but the lessons about morality in his books are purely hypothetical because they rely on this idea of "what if we had absolute power?" well we don't. That's why the lessons in literary fiction are just better

But then the deconstruction stops as soon as it gets to something he likes. The golliwog can't be portrayed as a black person or have anyone react to him as he is: a blackface minstrel stereotype. Instead he has to concoct this bizarre idea of him as an alien (but still a slave because he keeps it classy). Orlando, from what I read, only had occasional bouts of violence because he's lived so long man! As opposed to Quartermain who was practically catatonic with his drug addiction. Orlando's vices are compressed and they are only there because like living forever would be stressful man! Again, ignoring any sort of matter or soul implications of Orlando's abilities and focusing purely on the psychological. But even then I can think of many ways to deconstruct Orlando, for example having Orlando experience a ton of bigotry to the point of not wanting to go out into the world when living as a woman. Or having Orlando get gender dysphoria as a man, trying to trans out his male persona and then when switching to a woman getting gender dysphoria AGAIN and wanting to go back to being a man. Or even just having the knowledge of being able to understand both sexes but knowing no one else on either side can just making Orlando super depressed and jaded

That's me doing his thing of just stuffing characters full of neurosis but you can see the problem right? The worst case scenario is saved for characters he can get off on making look like fools but then his pet loves get very downplayed flaws or flaws that aren't even flaws like "I have too much le s*x and smoke too much le weed" which again he doesnt really question the downsides of free love or drug use beyond addiction whereas those things are usually the lead cause of r*pe (the real kind, not the cartoony bend you over in an alleyway kind he puts in all his books)

I get he's a smart guy, probably smarter than the both of us because our mental illnesses or hang ups mean there are elements we just dont understand about him that he does about himself or even guys like us, but the parts where he is wrong come off as so arrogant. he can say it's a persona when he tries to psychoanalyze people who dislike him but when he's actively trying to slander a guy like Morrison as a plagiarist and misrepresenting arguments and stats back to back with that in order to accuse a guy who's calling out the golliwog of simply doing so because he likes Batman you're maybe not some 4D chessmaster philosopher troll and in some cases just an r-slur (which his daughter has seemingly confirmed on twitter, with her bringing up that he still talks about and watches capeshit with her and her kids but is just extremely bitter about the economics stuff behind the scenes. I recommend looking it up she seems to take it super seriously)