{"id":3697,"date":"2020-10-25T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2020-10-25T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T04:20:00","slug":"animals-as-allegory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/?p=3697","title":{"rendered":"Animals as allegory"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zootopia<\/em> has the common fallacy of animal allegory fiction that altho its message is one thing (\u201cracism\/misogyny are bad\u201d) everything else about the universe runs contrary to that because there actually are<\/em> essentialist differences between animal species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something you notice about Robin Hood<\/em> is that, for the most part, there\u2019s no rhyme or reason to how the animal-people are distributed except for maybe \u201cbig ones tend to work for the state\u201d (e.g. rabbits and mice are peasants while crocodiles and rhinos are guards). But even then, the Sheriff of Nottingham (a wolf) is the same size as the Little John (a bear). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas in Zootopia<\/em>, carnivores are supposedly unfairly discriminated against, except that there\u2019s a good reason if you stop to think about it. For a zebra, it doesn\u2019t matter how many good lions you\u2019ve met in your life: they all do<\/strong> have the capacity and perhaps desire to eat and kill you while you have no equivalent desire or real capacity to hurt them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In reality, a Black person is not actually<\/em> essentially different from a white person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in the animal allegory, the fear of being eaten by larger species that apparently evolved over millions of years to hunt and kill you is being treated as equivalent and supposedly equally irrational to racism \u2014 except that at the literal level and for the prey animals, it is<\/em> rational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So if you\u2019re going to have animals represent essentialist qualities, particularly in exploitation or harm, the allegory can\u2019t be of the one-to-one \u201cracism is bad\u201d sort without implicitly making fundamental arguments for<\/em> racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might be able to make class<\/em>-based critiques but solely because we don\u2019t tend now to have anyone believe that being rich is an essentialist characteristic inherent to them. Instead it can be an allegory for that conflict:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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