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"Representation" should be defined for this comment thread as people of diverse backgrounds being seen as protagonists, deuteragonists, and antagonists in fiction, being elected representatives, and being hired for visible jobs at management/executive levels.
Is Representation a primary goal of the progressive project? Or is it a secondary goal, a virtue signal for societal diversity, since it can be seen as a sign that oppression has ceased, a sign that diverse people should be expected walking around in public, using services, present in labor jobs, and other signs of diverse social integration?
The primary purpose of representation in literature is helping younger authors clear out the old wood. Everything else is various other people's mutually incompatible utopias. Some of them are socially stunted enough to believe they can actually get them.
Though hearing an old black lady scream "obscene!" as she was dragged off for being insufficiently progressive was genuinely entertaining. What will be, eh?
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