The fun thing I like to point to is Argentine currency. You can see revanchist claims to the falklands and baffling hyperfixation on control over part of antarctica and then go to other bills and find things like genocide guy being honored for the genocide he did because of all the nice land.

I think there's another mistake in this framing, which is the idea of The Idea. A book is more than an idea, a book is a tapestry of many ideas, some of which are only decided on as they're arrived at. The machine denies the reader a world that is built upon by the author's experience of writing.

I call this one Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia

So there are a non zero number of people who use zombie to mean 'shambling hordes of inferiors who I am justified in using unlimited force on'. Which is to say that some people mean zombie with a proverbial hard r and are actually talking about ethnic strife.

Read the article rather than a deliberately misleading selective quote. He's specifically saying that despite hearing these concerns his job is to punch back.