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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8271379" data-attributes="member: 7635">You are advocating Death of the Author, where the text is divorced from any greater meaning brought to it from knowing the author's reasoning. That is to say that why the author chose to have his character become a domestic abuser is irrelevant to analyzing the role of the abuse in the text. It's a controversial critical analysis; as many people feel it's impossible to separate the author from the work while others feel it's absolutely necessary. Is it possible to analyze the politics of Star Wars without looking a George Lucas's liberal views, or gender in Harry Potter without looking at J.K. Rowling's recent issues with transphobia? Yes, but it's only one way and not always the right way.Now that being said, Critical Race Theory or Gender Theory isn't the be-all, end all either. Like DotA, it's a lens to look at a work through. It's no more or less valid. Which is why your dismissal of it as "woke propaganda" is so blatantly wrong: you might not like or agree with that lens, but that doesn't make it wrong and yours right.</blockquote>