This idea, popularized by narratives like Lord of the Flies, furthers the notion that society is just a thin veneer and people are just going to become animals the second civilization isn’t around to tell them what to do. Ideas like this were/are used to justify colonialism.https://twitter.com/nkjemisin/status/1259248932326170631 …
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I had an English teacher who repeatedly made the point that it was all boys in lord of the flies, but she never touched on race, colonialism, or the origin story. She just argued that men were all like that, and that was the moral of the story

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I do not dispute that men are trash, but an intersectional reading would more accurately point out that white men PARTICULAR are trash

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