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Yeah, you look at how chuds draw trans women as having beards when the men in the same drawings don't, it's crazy.
They associate morality with beautiful aesthetics. Why else do you think they post Roman statue shit or attractive women as tradwives? It's because they think not following a certain aesthetic and beauty standard makes you evil or subhuman.
Come to think of it, so does a lot of our popular culture (the fantasy genre has historically been especially bad about this).
I think there's legit a kernel of truth there. The tropes of "classical" fantasy have a lot of overlap with themes central to fascist ideology: bloodline as destiny, combat as the crucible of manhood, inherently evil races that can be killed without hesitation or remorse, romantic nostalgia for a "golden age," male-centric storytelling, fixation on kings and monarchs, individual "great men" as the drivers and movers of history, evil as a sinister occult force that has no goals beyond corrupting and inflicting suffering upon what is pure and good. There's nothing about fantasy as a genre that requires it to have these things, but they keep popping up because people uncritically copy what they already see or (less often) because the creators themselves are ideologically driven fascists.
Reactionaries look backwards. Fantasy is inherently a genre that looks backwards.
Communists look forwards. Science fiction is inherently a genre that looks forwards.
I'm not even remotely joking about this. Not all fantasy is fascist but a good deal of it includes fascist tropes. Meanwhile all science fiction that includes anything remotely fascist is plainly and obviously critical of it. There's no "haha future scifi empire with slavery is good actually" takes, because that would be stupid. The fantasy empires with slavery are uniquely capable of pretending to be good because they can hide behind "well duh it's a fantasy past setting, that stuff is just normal but these kingdoms are better than the evil alternatives surrounding them on all sides that they need to exterminate".
Let's not pretend there hasn't been plenty of reactionary sci-fi (Heinlein, Orwell, Rand, David Weber, John Ringo, Vox Day, John C. Wright to name a few).
I'd ask you to look into the World of Gor novels, but nobody deserves that.
If you create a story that includes objective subhumans(orcs) and don't seriously engage with that, you've probably got some Hitler particles in you.
Pretty privilege is definitely a thing. I've really noticed the difference in how people treat me since I started looking ill and rough. Like I'm not even worthy of basic human decency now, I don't even deserve to have my presence acknowledged.