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[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

they most certainly do not have a bunch of black and brown people in mind when they think of who rules the hypothetical real-life Gilead.

Which is kind of funny because as far as I know the largest inspiration for Atwood's story was Saudi Arabia.