I’m leaning towards yes, because despite their inclusivity and the general feel-good vibes of the stories, the characters themselves flirt with police brutality quite a bit, and who knows exactly what they get up to in their lives outside the novels.

Any more nuanced views from my fellow hexbearians (and lemmings)? I’m slightly less articulate than Detritus on a hot day, and I wonder how much the politics and views of Terry Pratchett comes up in leftist discourse.

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Unfortunately he seems to have also had mild western liberal views on Leftist movements

    Interesting Times was such a cringe book with its core plot of “actually revolutionaries fighting a literal empire are silly and pointless in their aims, here’s a western hero to come in and actually fix things and make a good empire!”. Honestly most/all of the Rincewind books were sort of uncomfortable reads. The other arcs were generally better, though.