Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Walden and Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau

1 review

emhunsber's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, and Animal death

Moderate: Cultural appropriation, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Colonisation, Racism, and War

Minor: Ableism, Antisemitism, Classism, Islamophobia, and Slavery

Thoreau was a man of his time; that said, he was also a privileged white man of his time. While he does not go into detail about his ideology related to non-white people, it is clear from his mentions of "Indians" and "savages" that those who do not look like him are very "other", and his romanticism of "orientals" and "hindoos" crosses into racist territory.