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
Interesting. And looking back on 2020, say, in 50 years from now, how do you think people will view people supporting giving children the right to sign up for irreversible gender reassignment treatment before they are old enough to get a tattoo?
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Replying to @megawhelmed @napguerreiro and
I think the trans people will be grateful they had the opportunity to live their lives as themselves and I don't care what any of the cis people think
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Replying to @arthur_affect @napguerreiro and
So you think a mind as brilliant as HG Wells could be stupid enough to support a dangerous, misguided fad of his time, but you'd never be at risk of doing something like that? For how many millions of years has life taken male and female forms?
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The dangerous, misguided fad was seeking paternalistic control over other people's reproductive decisions in order to curtail individual freedom for the greater good It's not just a random mistake he made, it's a principle that I oppose
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