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So – I recently saw a post about Silver’s actions in the finale of Sails being the equivalent of a friend who stops a speeding car full of people from driving over a cliff despite them being utterly convinced the car will survive the impact, and I couldn’t leave it alone. OP – I’m sorry. Please feel free to skip this post if you’d like – I had to get this off my chest and I’m putting it under a cut because it’s just me bitching and (sort of) disagreeing with you.

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So I totally agree about Silver’s privilege and Flit and Madi both fighting a war against the oppression both of them have faced, which people like them will continue to face but

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no problem! See – the thing with Silver’s actions is not that I disagree with the fact that the war was unwinnable. I think he was probably right on that score. Sooner or later, they were going to lose, and I think that the Maroons probably made the right choice in taking that treaty for the sake of their people. My beef is that they weren’t given a true chance to choose. They were presented with the options Silver wanted them presented with, having deliberately sabotaged any real chance at a choice by removing Flint from the playing field along with the cache they would have used to finance the said war. He rendered the war a non-possibility because he was afraid Madi and Flint would die, and not once did he think to himself – these people have the right to choose whether or not to keep going with this without my interference as an outsider. Just – it leaves a bad taste in my mouth because he is white, he is in effect making a decision for an entire people not his own, not to mention people in Flint’s situation, because this is as much about his experience of discrimination and marginalization as it is Madi and her people’s. Silver hasn’t experienced life through their eyes, he just thinks he’s seen through Flint’s because he put his rage glasses on for a month and then got to take them off, which is something Madi and Flint can’t do with their race or sexual orientation.