Discussion History FanFic / MyImmortal

Just saw this reply. Probably a more accurate way of putting it would be that \\\"everything the CSA does is an exaggerated version of actual U.S. policies\\\". For instance, the treatment of Jews in the movie is clearly supposed to parallel the treatment of Native Americans post-Civil War (the Long Island thing is a parody of the reservation system). There might also be a bit of a parallel to how Grant had that bizarre order in which he wanted to round up Jews and how Judah P. Benjamin received a lot of anti-Semitic criticism from both people on the North and his fellow Confederates. And the returning blacks to slavery thing is presumably a parallel to how Reconstruction ended up being abandoned and segregation was either legal or de facto policy in both the North and South. And what the CSA does in South America is a pretty close reflection of the Spanish American War. Not to mention that many of the advertisements are real ones.

So no, I\\\'m not going \\\"goddamn America\\\". The CSA is pretty much an UpToEleven version of actual historical misdeeds. I kind of think that the movie only really \\\"works\\\" in this way, since as noted, the actual Confederacy had no interest in taking over the rest of the U.S., so if the film is looked at as a speculation on \\\"what things would be like had the Confederacy won\\\", then it\\\'s just stupid.