I can deal with a little political propaganda in a book, but I found it to be extreme here. You can barely flip through a chapter without hearing a lecture about racism or white privilege or immigration policy. There have been few (possibly no other) books which I could not finish, but I couldn't even finish this book. I really tried to ignore the political messaging, but it really is nonstop.
When I read the Wonder Woman book, I expected some political messages, because she's always been political. However, Leigh Bardugo is pretty good about inserting her little spiel and then moving on. Superman generally has been a unifying hero that was above politics. Even in his comics, his philosophy typically was that humans needed to decide between good and evil on their own, and it wasn't his place to lecture or impose his own morals upon them. This version of Superman? Nope. If you support immigration policy then you're a straight-up bigoted racist, and that's all there is to it.
The author doesn't even make a good case for why the policies are racist, they just assume the reader agrees with them by default, and it doesn't need to be explained. I got 40% the way through the book and I saw very little actual racism going on. There was tons and tons of Clark Kent talking about how racist everyone is, but very few instances of anyone actually being racist. From all the pages I read, I only came across one instance of someone being somewhat racist when they said they'd have some Mexican kid deported. When I see that people can't even find strong cases of racism in their own made-up stories, it doesn't really enforce the idea that their claims of racism are valid.
In fictional books, when you want to change minds, what you're suppose to do is make the reader emphasize with your point by telling a clever story. Constantly lecturing at your reader about how racist they are because they believe we should enforce the laws we already have on the books doesn't really make people come over to your side. All that does is ensure the reader is never going to buy another one of your books.
What are authors thinking when they do this? Do they lean back in their chairs smugly assured about how many minds they're going to change? Or are they happily aware theyre going to isolate half their readers, because they don't want "those evil bigoted racists" reading their books at all? Honestly, what the purpose in shoving your political views down our throats in a fictional book? If I wanted a lecture on race relations, I would just go read White Fragility.
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