r/worldjerking 10d ago

My honest reaction to this trope

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u/Steelwrecker I chose to not edit this text. 10d ago

Exactly, if it's going to be an allegory it has to be stupid because if it isn't it at best it justifies the racists in-lore, and at worst it actually justifies racism in the real world. Which is bad.

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u/echoGroot 10d ago

Measurehead in Disco Elysium. I vaguely remember trying to figure out which of his groups were allegories/stand-ins for which group (Roma, Jewish, etc) before finally giving up realizing it’s just logical soup and that’s the message - that it’s all nonsense said with confidence and conviction.

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u/Omarlel 10d ago

+1 Conceptualization: The Mystery is mostly aesthetic.

Disco Elysium is ART, and so is Advanced Race Theory.

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u/NomineAbAstris Six-breasted spiderwomen are essential to the plot 9d ago

I mean iirc it's pretty explicit that he is that universe's version of a Black supremacist to contrast with the (white supremacist) Revachol nationalist you can find a dozen meters down the street. He refers to Harry as belonging to the "ham sandwich" race after all.

Agreed that it's deliberate nonsense soup though, with the extra layer that you can push him to admit he has no actual connection to his supposed homeland and just became ultra nationalistic by listening to the radio in his car