Incoherent Babbling

Posted byDamien WalterPosted inWriting & Publishing

So you make a video essay about Blade Runner and slavery

And that Rick Deckard is a slave hunter

And the replicants are literally escaped slaves

And about once a week someone leaves this comment

<INCOHERENT BABBLING>

Ahktually its nothing to do with slaves U FOOL and we ended slavery and africans took slaves and its all in the past and if they are slaves why arent they black and BLADE RUNNER IS NOT ABOUT SLAVES GO EFF URSELF

</INCOHERENT BABBLING>

And I think

“Did you even watch the end of the movie where Roy saves Rick while delivering a speech about slavery?”

And then I give up.

Published by Damien Walter

Writer and storyteller. Contributor to The Guardian, Independent, BBC, Wired, Buzzfeed and Aeon magazine. Special forces librarian (retired). Teaches the Rhetoric of Story to over 35,000 students worldwide.

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