It remains distressing to me that we can all spend days lamenting the fact that DnD are adapting this without mentioning once that Liu Cixin is ON RECORD as being pro Xinjiang concentration camps because they’re lifting minorities out of poverty.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/liu-cixins-war-of-the-worlds https://twitter.com/polygon/status/1300796205518249984

I’m not asking you to boycott this series so much as I’m asking you to CARE ABOUT GENOCIDE.

I’m not going to say don’t like the books or whatever, and yes, obviously I don’t have living relatives in mainland china, so I don’t have to watch what I say. I don’t know what they do or don’t have on him.

Here is the quote from https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/liu-cixins-war-of-the-worlds

I don't want to reduce both the profile to just this one quote and I do recommend you read it in context. There are complexities at work, but I don't want to lose sight of the big picture: genocide (something that is thematically consistent with LXC's work)

I know no one reads to the end of these threads of mine but this is the only note I know how to end on https://twitter.com/jlfreeman6/status/1300794353171001344?s=21

Sorry, one more thing.

We always frame this as being about whether or not you consume specifically the "problematic" media in question but I really don't personally care about that so much as you ALSO DO ANOTHER THING. Call your reps. Sign a petition. Share an article.

In brutally simple terms: I personally would much rather you watched "Wandering Earth" and then wrote to your representatives about Uighur genocide and shared half a dozen articles about such with your friends than just refrain from watching it and nothing else.

Asking Liu Cixin his opinion on the government who touts his work as their national literature and put him on syllabuses isn't the same as asking every random Muslim to condemn terrorism. Subversive or not, political or not, his art is state-sanctioned.