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> Even Kipling is better than the article gives him credit for "You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!" No, Kipling was still super racist, even if you can
by miltonlost 2y ago
> Even Kipling is better than the article gives him credit for "You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!"
No, Kipling was still super racist, even if you can cherry-pick one quote out of his oeuvre and ignore "White-Man's Burden" and like everything else about him.
I think you place too much importance on your thinking she places a lot of importance on one line/paragraph out of a much larger essay.
> Three British authors!
Yes, and the article is from a magazine in the UK, from the London Review of Books? Why would she not focus on British authors then?
- TRiG_Ireland 2y agoKipling is, I think, in many ways hard to categorise. He loved India and its peoples, and did respect them, but in a rather condescending way. And he definitely believed in the "white man's burden". And yet apparently Kim is popular with Indian intellectuals.