The reason dystopian fiction always has white protags is the whole point is "now white ppl are suffering like everyone else" https://twitter.com/broderickgreer/status/860944754644852737 …
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I'm not attacking this trope, just pointing it out - lots of dystopian fiction depends on "And if you think THIS is bad..."
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And then gestures toward far worse suffering among "foreign"/non-white ppl taking place off stage
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This is a huge part of 1984 that rarely gets discussed, that the Global South exists in suffering Winston Smith literally can't imagine
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(This isn't speculation, this is text. Goldstein's book says Oceania/Eastasia/Eurasia's endless war is mostly fought in the South)
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(Most labor and most resource extraction takes place there; everything that happens to Winston is "internal politics")
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Orwell himself was very open about saying domestic class oppression seemed like weak tea compared to the evils of Empire he'd witnessed
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While still being all "But hey I can only write what I know about characters I can identify with"
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