I mean... Yes
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Replying to @XenaWorrier @arthur_affect and
He also had levels of racism American racists would salivate over.
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Replying to @XenaWorrier @StorySlug and
If Rudyard Kipling somehow ISN'T racist then that DEFINITELY means the word has no meaning
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Replying to @arthur_affect @XenaWorrier and
Which of his contemporaries should he have been more like?
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Replying to @megawhelmed @arthur_affect and
What about HG Wells? They were born about a year apart, although Wells was born in England. Some of Wells' early work doesn't hold up, but by 1907 he opposed imperialism, classism & wrote strongly against the "unfairness of the handicaps put upon men of colour," in his own words.
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Replying to @napguerreiro @megawhelmed and
HG Wells was a eugenicist but yes it would be better to be him than Kipling Kipling was strongly associated with the right wing in his time, he was the "Tory Laureate"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @napguerreiro and
Ever read Wells’s 1901 short story “The New Accelerator”? It’s about a super-speed drug.pic.twitter.com/aLcIMjEDb3
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It would explain a lot about my life if I'm going through it at 1.5x speed honestly
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