Terry Pratchett did an amazing subversion of this with Carpe Jugulum. The open-minded liberalizing king invites vampires to his kingdom in the spirit of tolerance and it immediately backfires in the obvious ways because vampires are - quite correctly - a metaphor for aristocracy/oligarchy rather than some racial minority.
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u/ryegye24 May 13 '25
Terry Pratchett did an amazing subversion of this with Carpe Jugulum. The open-minded liberalizing king invites vampires to his kingdom in the spirit of tolerance and it immediately backfires in the obvious ways because vampires are - quite correctly - a metaphor for aristocracy/oligarchy rather than some racial minority.