I just bristle at the idea that Lord of the Flies is a novel "used to justify colonialism" when the most obvious, superficial, blunt hammer reading of it is the opposite of that It's *literally* "White people who think they can build a new society from scratch fuck it all up"https://twitter.com/NussbaumAbigail/status/1259386486643924992 …
She's responding to other people calling the negative view of human nature in LotF inherently colonialist
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I'm not seeing a message she's directly replying to, and it's too late for me to look, but what I have seen seems to demonstrate a reasonable understanding of some of its themes. I could be missing something, though. Evening caffeine can be tough on me.
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