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
Mark Twain, who famously got into a shouting match with Kipling about how he was a racist and an imperialist
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Replying to @julie_neuhouser @megawhelmed and
Yeah no one from this time period was perfect, obviously, all of them held some opinions we'd condemn harshly But the Spanish-American War was a clear and obvious litmus test for intellectuals in the West in that time, just as Vietnam was in our parents' time and Iraq in ours
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Replying to @arthur_affect @megawhelmed and
And I definitely didn't think of Mark Twain because he's free from racism - it is a well-known fact that he used the n word - but specifically because he called out Kipling for *all of the exact same things people call him out for today* and he did it to his face
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Replying to @julie_neuhouser @arthur_affect and
Like people have the idea that we get mad about things now that nobody got mad about in the past but like, Gone with the Wind got protested when it came out, Wagner got "cancelled" for his antisemitism, etc. etc.
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