In his video reacting to the bad WIRED article about Bardon Sanderson, around 19:25, he says that Kaladin 'debatably is not a good person' I have read Stormlight 1-3 and I think this is kind of a weird take, because Kaladin seems like such a good person to me. Does anyone know why Daniel feels this way about Kaladin?
Why does Daniel Greene think Kaladin is not a good person
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He’s a raging racist for 3 books.
The racism thing is kind of tricky though, right? The humans alive on Roshar during stormlight had nothing to do with the pashmens current mental state, so them being enslaved and treated like animals makes a lot of sense, even if many seem to have been cruel for the fun if it.
Imagine the parshmen like horses or donkeys in our world. There are a wide range of opinions on how work animals should be treated and used. If one day a storm occurred, and every horse on Earth started talking, what would we do? Mostly treat them well, probably, but how long would it take us to get past them being horses and treat them like people?
So sure, Kaladin certainly has some racist biases, but I think he gets past them shockingly quickly, honestly.
That's not really racism though cause they legit are a different species. His bright eye hate though, thats some serious racism he has had to work through and would probably still be super racist if him becoming a radiant didnt make him light eyes.
That’s classist, not racist. Take a good look at how you feel about the average billionaire before judging Kal too harshly for his bitter classism.
If the class was determined on skin colour would it be racist?
Also not sure why you are bringing my feelings into it. Im not making judgement calls either way and just debating whether classism based on eye colour is considered racism or classism.
I mean you’re right, but I don’t see what point you’re trying to make, this discussion is about Kaladins morality, and he had nothing to do with establishing the caste system in Alethkar.