Yeah he was actually a pretty big racist, which probably plays into the “was a colonial cop” thing.
Not like, Kipling level racist, and he even has done criticism of Kipling on the topic, but pretty up there. On his snitch list he said things like “anti-white” as his criticisms.
Speaking of which, his list was a list of socialists he consider too Stalinist for recruiting into an anti-Stalin propaganda program. As far as anyone can tell its purpose wasn’t for and wasn’t used to persecute or out anyone, most of the people on the list were publicly socialist.
Plus he was going insane from terminal TB so it’s just straight up not the purity test bullet some people want it to be. Even if it was Animal Farm’s criticisms are still true, including the fact that the pigs turning into basically-humans doesn’t excuse the humans from their own crimes, which was the point that made America states ban it too.
I’d need to look more into that, did saw a comment of his against some of the Burmese people who were supposedly insulting him which was off-color. Though he did seem to try to integrate into at least a Burmese subculture, the Karen/Kayin, supposedly learning their language and speaking relatively fluid.
Tbh, I saw the “anti-white” comment but without knowing anything about who it was directed to (I didn’t dig deeper) it doesn’t hold much merit to me. I will look into the person, though.
The list might’ve inadvertently be used to persecute, but probably due to general McCarthyism. Any “risk” of being a communist was enough for the US.
And absolutely, I find it weird. They can’t discredit the writing so they go for the character of the author. I personally don’t feel they necessarily need to be intertwined. Animal Farm also felt like a poignant parallelism to history with Snowball and Napoleon mirroring Trotsky and Stalin.
Yeah he was actually a pretty big racist, which probably plays into the “was a colonial cop” thing.
Not like, Kipling level racist, and he even has done criticism of Kipling on the topic, but pretty up there. On his snitch list he said things like “anti-white” as his criticisms.
Speaking of which, his list was a list of socialists he consider too Stalinist for recruiting into an anti-Stalin propaganda program. As far as anyone can tell its purpose wasn’t for and wasn’t used to persecute or out anyone, most of the people on the list were publicly socialist.
Plus he was going insane from terminal TB so it’s just straight up not the purity test bullet some people want it to be. Even if it was Animal Farm’s criticisms are still true, including the fact that the pigs turning into basically-humans doesn’t excuse the humans from their own crimes, which was the point that made America states ban it too.
I’d need to look more into that, did saw a comment of his against some of the Burmese people who were supposedly insulting him which was off-color. Though he did seem to try to integrate into at least a Burmese subculture, the Karen/Kayin, supposedly learning their language and speaking relatively fluid.
Tbh, I saw the “anti-white” comment but without knowing anything about who it was directed to (I didn’t dig deeper) it doesn’t hold much merit to me. I will look into the person, though.
The list might’ve inadvertently be used to persecute, but probably due to general McCarthyism. Any “risk” of being a communist was enough for the US.
And absolutely, I find it weird. They can’t discredit the writing so they go for the character of the author. I personally don’t feel they necessarily need to be intertwined. Animal Farm also felt like a poignant parallelism to history with Snowball and Napoleon mirroring Trotsky and Stalin.