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malchickiwick

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2. Ummm...maybe it's just me, but i get ZERO inspiration from the author of The White Man's Burden.

Reply to Cyrano (Original post)

Thu Jul 16, 2020, 11:53 AM

Jul 2020

That sick, poetic justification of colonization, genocide, and white supremacy is a blot on his legacy, and any statues of Kipling probably belong in a garbage dump, in my humble opinion.

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Love it! FM123 Jul 2020 #1

Ummm...maybe it's just me, but i get ZERO inspiration from the author of The White Man's Burden. malchickiwick Jul 2020 #2

Memorized the "If" for girls in the eighth grade. Mme. Defarge Jul 2020 #3

Polonius advice bottomofthehill Jul 2020 #4

I memorized that, too! Mme. Defarge Jul 2020 #5

Parochial School in Boston. bottomofthehill Jul 2020 #7

One of my favorites. Also Kipling's "The Gods of the Copybook Headings " Walleye Jul 2020 #6