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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Wasn't the truth of that ambiguous from Winston's perspective a la don't ask questions b/c this grass is greener than another?
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I more or less take Goldstein's book as intended by Orwell to be fact, since Orwell uses it to straight up break the narrative and preach
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