Why do people always call this racist? Seemed surprisingly progressive to me considering when it was written.
Racism has been redefined and retroactively applied
>>25308393Those who so keenly throw around insults like [racism] are from wounded, warlike breeds. They are simply looking for new targets to attack. It's a racial characteristic of whites.Whereas blacks who accuse others of racism follow the .gif of 'das racist'; it's an easy way to get something their way. Purely opportunistic.
Conrad used the n word and he didn’t even have a pass.
My teacher called it anti racist and used it as an example of anti imperialist literature and after reading it yeah it's such a brutal and unsanitized way of describing the exploitation Africa was under at the time that I just cant see it as racist except for some characters calling each other niggers and a couple black characters bieng depicted in a negative lightIt's like when a couple writers like Dostoevsky get accused of misogyny because they dared to write a female character that was a bad person even when a lot of their bibliography displays great and upstanding girls. Woman are just as capable of evil as man and blacks are just as capable of evil as whites, it's not racist because it depicted a couple black guys as overly violent when most of them are depicted in a positive light
he uses phrases like dusty niggers
>>25308433Ooh, that’s some nice racist solipsism.
I believe the trend really started with Chinua Achebe’s essay “An Image of Africa.” Towards the end, Achebe acknowledges that Conrad was anti-imperialist. It’s just that he failed to take it one step further: the racism part of the imperialist equation. Not sure if I agree with it all, but an interesting read
>>25309231I think Achebe's books pair very nicely with Conrad
>>25309101well, how else would you describe them?
Most people who have read it say it is anti racist. A black Muslim woman I know read it and was blown away and thought it was incredible. But the reason people probably get irritated by it is that it shows the colonialists as savages just like the savages they fight, as with Blood Meridian. And to some readers that seems like saying colonialists had a duty to bring goodness but were just pirates, and we should rather say colonialism was never about bringing goodness and couldn't have been, it was just romanticized like piracy was
>>25308393he was an old white man that didn't hate his race or kowtow to leftism. cultural Marxism demands that all works in this category be destroyed>>25308429fpbp
>>25308393It struck me as White-sympthetic anti-colonialism. That is, engaging with the disorder of niggers will corrupt you. Conversely, it is fair to the counterpoints that empire is a zero-sum game where all things conquer or die, and that human nature demands a certain chaotic element. >>25308481Chat is this cover real
poles need to apologize for slavery
>>25310322At the beginning the narrator says Britain was the Africa of antiquity and Romans the colonists. The barbarism of Kurtz is not corruption but is clearly there from the beginning in his writings when he says whites will be like gods in Africa. This is hubris, satanic, and by making himself a pagan god he rules with the same violence as Yahweh.
>>25309242"Things fall apart" that one? Might have to read that as well then. Thank you.
>>2530913285 IQ
>>25309262>well, how else would you describe them?We have a whole ass list of terms you are allowed to use for them.
>>25308393It’s always so stupid to me when someone is all upset of Conrad depicting the natives as savages or whatever the fuck, when the novel takes place in 19th century Congo. Was that really some sort bastion of enlightenment at the time or even now?
>>25308481Man that book started off hot then just turned into endless>the forecastle topsail blew aft on the mainscrew
>>25309294>colonialists had a duty to bring goodness but were just pirates, and we should rather say colonialism was never about bringing goodness and couldn't have been, it was just romanticized like piracy wasOf course it did bring goodness and civilization into rank barbarism
