#preservationaux

If you disagree with me that The Murderbot Diaries is doing slavery apologism, show me the passages where we are expected to fear and hate slave owners, and cheer on the slaves who hurt or kill them in their fight for freedom.

If I'm so wrong about this series and how this author is framing slavery and slave owners, then just show me the quotes.

You all want to claim that this is not slavery apologism, but you cannot even bear to admit that these people are, factually, objectively, slave owners, and that they purposefully went out of their way to become slave owners, and have continued to exploit their slave for the entire series now without ever receiving any pushback or punishment. They literally continue to profit from enslaving Murderbot to this fucking day despite this series running for nine goddamn years now.

If Martha Wells were not a white supremacist, and were not writing slavery apologism, The preservation ox team either would not be slave owners, or they would be dead, or otherwise punished by the narrative for being slave owners.

Bots who are “full citizens” still have to have a human or augmented human guardian appointed, usually their employer,

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“You’d be my guardian,” I said. “Yes.” She was glad I understood. “There are so many education opportunities. You can do anything you want.” Guardian was a nicer word than owner.

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I told it I was a free bot, trying to get back to its human guardian. (The “free bot” thing is deceptive. Bots are considered citizens in some non-corporate political entities like Preservation, but they still have appointed human guardians.

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Amena looked appalled. “My mother doesn’t own you.”

“Yes, she does.”

They are literally so desperate to defend the slavery apologism without actually providing any proof to actually refute it, that they will pretend not to understand the basic core premise of the series, which is that Murderbot goes on cute little adventures to protect its slave owners or their interests.

And it's not like the series is confusing, it's not written in academic language, it's not written in flowery language, the pros is so fucking basic and simple that probably most of the people in the fandom are under the impression that it's literally designed for middle schoolers.

It's not complicated. When it has something to say it spells it out to you to your fucking face.

As I keep saying. Literally nobody that actually sees slavery as horrific would ever be able to write All Systems Red.

The things these people do to murderbot before the story is even halfway through is just nightmarish, but Martha Wells gloss is over all of it or portrays it as positive, and people refuse to read critically, so 99% of these people literally have no idea what the fuck even happens in the goddamn first half of the story, let alone how it actually ends.

Martha Wells is literally training her audience into accepting slavery apologism and anti-intellectualism. And it's working.

And even when people are trying to argue that it's not, they literally still cannot ever provide any evidence of their claims that "well, they're nice slave owners!" A, there's literally no such thing as a nice slave owner, and b, they literally treated horrifically, so not even on a surface level are they nice. Martha Wells just does not want you to notice or remember the horrific levels of abuse they put murderbot through in book 1 alone, not even getting into anything else they do to it throughout the rest of the series.

And if you think I'm wrong about this, then show me the quotes. Reread the book.

Find me all of those passages where immediately after it saves Bharadwaj and Volescu they immediately start treating it like an equal.

Show me where they apologize for not realizing it was a person, nd aapologize for enslaving it, And do everything they can to make up for the fact that they literally fucking rented out this person as a slave, and immediately start treating it like an equal and stop treating it literally like the slave they went solar systems out of their way to rent out.

In 5 years or so when the rest of the world catches up with this shit, you are all going to look extremely fucking embarrasingly racist trying to argue that this series isn't just House Elves 2k17.

If you think that I am wrong about there being slavery apologism in this series, then literally show me the quotes from book one where they immediately start treating murderbot like an equal. Show them to me. How they immediately instantaneously start treating murderbot like an equal once "realize it's a person".

And again, we've seen preservation. We're told robots there are treated as equals. So ask yourself, if they thought murder bought was "just" a robot, why were they still literally treating it like a slave the entire time? I thought Preservation treated robots as equals and wasn't literally also enslaving them?

That literally, objectively *does not happen*, that is literally just a fucking lie that Martha Wells is selling to you through vibes alone, and you would know this if you would actually engage critical thinking skills and actually take the time to stop and think and actually read the literal words that are actually on the page instead of going along with the pro-slavery vibes Martha Wells is feeding you.

literally. If you think that that statement that they immediately started treating murder bot like an equal is true, then you should be perfectly happy to pick up your copy of all systems read right now and reread it using active reading and actually reading the actual words that are actually literally on the page, and actually looking at those and what they literally objectively tell you is actually happening, instead of just mindlessly going along with the cutesy vibes that Martha Wells is using to present everything going on in this book as cutesy and wholesome and positive,

Right?

Right? You guys are all actually happy to pick up the copy of the book you're all claiming to love so much to actually reread it with critical thinking skills, to oh so easily prove your interpretation correct, right?

Right?

You're willing to actually pick up the book and look at what it literally says is happening? Because you know you will be proven correct?

Right?

Right?

Because you know you're right, don't you? So you should have literally nothing to fear in simply rereading the book using active reading, right?

Because if you're right and I'm wrong about the books being slavery apologism, then surely it would be effortless to prove me wrong by simply rereading the book again yourself using critical thinking skills and active reading, right?