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A stretch it may be, but that really was the nominators’ reason. They call it “Marxism isn’t Magic.” Here, check it out: http://sadpuppies4.org/recommendations-best-dramatic-presentation-short-form/
I was asked to write a blurb about it for a fanzine elsewhere, and my takeway on the common ground that liberals and conservatives could find with the episode was almost certainly that Starlight really crossed the moral line when she stripped the Mane Six’ cutie marks without consent. If she had (1) avoided defrauding her followers, openly keeping her cutie mark so as to perform the removal spell, (2) satisfied herself with building a town full of ponies that were having trouble in their lives and came to be equalized and (3) let ponies go with their cutie marks if they decided they didn’t like the town, I figure we can all agree that she could have gone about her merry way. (And probably that the town would have shortly collapsed from citizen dissatisfaction, but maybe not; it is a fantasy world after all.)
As you point out, the value of diversity occupies a curious space in the liberal-conservative spectrum. Social research makes it pretty clear that ideologically diverse groups make better decisions, and after all, that’s really a key principle behind the smooth functioning of free speech and free markets – more voices will find and gravitate to a better solution. Conservatives tend to revolt against diversity in the guise of ideas like affirmative action, although achieving diversity is one of its essential goals. Progressives tend to oppose diversity arguments not for the diversity itself but when economies of scale outweigh them heavily, such as when they oppose “school choice” in the name of protecting the public school system.
Speaking as a conservative, I think interpreting it as a commentary on communism or socialism or anything else striving for “equality of outcome” is really a stretch. On the other hand, I may be odd among conservatives in thinking your “liberal” interpretation is also really compatible with conservative ideology.
I read through the conversation on the site that the Sad Puppies used to compile their nomination lists. It’s legit – remember, conservatives who wished to find a congenial message in the episode could easily interpret Equal Town as a metaphor for 1984-style communism (or more weakly, socialism) and as an allegory for attempts to produce “equality of outcome,” a standard conservative bogeyman.
Of course, the moral is directed at single-digit age children, so it’s just as easy to read a liberal take on it: that diversity is powerful, where sometimes those who are strong in one way must depend on those who had been weak before, as the Mane Six must depend on the townsponies’ newly regained talents in the climax. I find that to be the more logical moral of a story about differences and friendship, but artistic interpretation is idiosyncratic. At any rate, I don’t think it’s a troll.
I was really irritated yesterday about those using Pony in some petty political posturing, but I realized that in the in the end that it probably doesn’t matter. Personally, I’m just going to ignore it.
ohhh i see :)
An annually award giving to some of the best science fiction or fantasy works.
And what’s a Hugo Award?
The season 5 opener was nominated for a Hugo award.