Was Kipling racist?

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Manchester University students paint over Rudyard Kipling mural. Students replace poem If by ‘well-known racist’ with Maya Angelou’s Still I Rise


https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jul/19/...

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Hoofy said:

Kinda reminds me of those idiots with Che Guevara t-shirts.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/was-che-guevara-a-he...

dude that link suddenly popped up all manner of crap

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Ridgemont said:

Halb said:

Ayahuasca said:

Was Kipling racist?

I do not believe that racism as a concept existed in Kipling's time. Therefore it is not possible for him to have been racist.

thinking another race was inferior wsn't around back then?

I’m interested as I am a bit of a Kipling fan. Where does he say a race is inferior?

IIRC you'd be looking at White Man's Burden for that...

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Roofless Toothless said:

And, of course, Shakespeare is no longer welcome on my bookshelves after that Shylock play.

nah that's still fine in Labour, required reading in fact. I men it's a twofer:
The evils of money being lent by the wealthy (read bankers)
The devious Jew