She's the Mother of Dragons because she is Targaryen. These are inseparable. If she was not Targaryen, she would not be able to control those dragons. She would not have been able to survive the fire that birthed them. And because she birthed (and controls) those dragons - she is the Mother of Dragons.
GRRM is a part of the culture that attributes power and greatness to whiteness, and he chose to make the Targaryens (all of them that we ever meet or hear about) and Dany white.
If overthrowing slavery is wrong because the person doing it is white, people really need to fix their skewered perceptions of reality.
No, you've missed the point. Did you not read the part in ADWD where Tyrion realizes that the serfs of Westeros don't live any better than the slaves of Essos do? Their "lords" have the power of life and death over them, restrict their movements, demand their crops at swordpoint to the point that they die en masse during long winters... and yet, nobody is trying to "fix" the "evil culture" of serfdom. Why? Because that change has to come from within, or it won't take. What Dany's doing won't take either, unless she stays there forever.
This is just looking for something to moan about.
No, it isn't.
People would be moaning that she's a white privileged little princess if she wasn't abolishing slavery.
No, they wouldn't. There are host of other princesses in the books - no one is "whining" about them doing things they are not doing. If Dany wasn't doing something, no one would be pointing out that she was doing it. This statement is nonsensical.
People are whining that she's wrong because she's a white woman trying to abolish slavery from a few parts of the world.
No, they are arguing that this is problematic in its representation, not "whining that she's wrong".
But if you're going to continuously mischaracterize your opponents arguments, and belittle those who disagree with you as "moaning" and "whining", there is little point in engaging you in an intellectual discussion - because you clearly aren't interested in holding one. Please respond respectfully, or do not bother, because this conversation will be over.
...And you did not seriously just refer to Islamic practices as an "infection", did you? I hope I'm misunderstanding you, because if I'm not, I retract the above and this conversation is already over.
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GRRM is a part of the culture that attributes power and greatness to whiteness, and he chose to make the Targaryens (all of them that we ever meet or hear about) and Dany white.
If overthrowing slavery is wrong because the person doing it is white, people really need to fix their skewered perceptions of reality.
No, you've missed the point. Did you not read the part in ADWD where Tyrion realizes that the serfs of Westeros don't live any better than the slaves of Essos do? Their "lords" have the power of life and death over them, restrict their movements, demand their crops at swordpoint to the point that they die en masse during long winters... and yet, nobody is trying to "fix" the "evil culture" of serfdom. Why? Because that change has to come from within, or it won't take. What Dany's doing won't take either, unless she stays there forever.
This is just looking for something to moan about.
No, it isn't.
People would be moaning that she's a white privileged little princess if she wasn't abolishing slavery.
No, they wouldn't. There are host of other princesses in the books - no one is "whining" about them doing things they are not doing. If Dany wasn't doing something, no one would be pointing out that she was doing it. This statement is nonsensical.
People are whining that she's wrong because she's a white woman trying to abolish slavery from a few parts of the world.
No, they are arguing that this is problematic in its representation, not "whining that she's wrong".
But if you're going to continuously mischaracterize your opponents arguments, and belittle those who disagree with you as "moaning" and "whining", there is little point in engaging you in an intellectual discussion - because you clearly aren't interested in holding one. Please respond respectfully, or do not bother, because this conversation will be over.
...And you did not seriously just refer to Islamic practices as an "infection", did you? I hope I'm misunderstanding you, because if I'm not, I retract the above and this conversation is already over.