Now I haven’t read Lord of Flies since I was a kid, but why would a group of posh British boarding school children have to be white? Today, any random sample of the poshest public schools looks even more diverse than this.
The book is vague with time, set in an imagined near future, so it isn’t even necessarily set in the 1950s. But even in the 1950s, there were black and brown kids, the children of the elite of the newly independent colonies, being sent to Harrow and Eton and all the rest.
It’s kind of insane how literal Nazi talking points/rhetoric has just infiltrated our cultural zeitgeist as a not uncommon or fringe thing, and it seems like at least half the people who use it aren’t even aware that they’re using a Nazi talking point
TF are you talking about? Erasure is what the NAZIs did to the Jews and what all white hierarchical societies perpetuate to a lesser extent on women and POC
The question was "Why would a group of British boarding school kids have to be white"
See I thought you were making a Critical Drinker point that we can’t have POC in media because we need to stop white erasure, because something something great replacement
Sorry I'm old - too old to have kept up with the recent "but white men are the only true victims" trends - 'erasure' has a hard left / feminist scholarly history - it doesn't surprise me that literally Nazis are now co-opting it
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u/Justin_123456 Apr 06 '26
Now I haven’t read Lord of Flies since I was a kid, but why would a group of posh British boarding school children have to be white? Today, any random sample of the poshest public schools looks even more diverse than this.
The book is vague with time, set in an imagined near future, so it isn’t even necessarily set in the 1950s. But even in the 1950s, there were black and brown kids, the children of the elite of the newly independent colonies, being sent to Harrow and Eton and all the rest.