Babel

by R.F. Kuang

‘What makes the English superior is guns. Guns, and the willingness to use them on innocent people.’

Oh those white people have small hearts who can only feel for themselves.

My point being, abolition happened because white people found reasons to care – whether those be economic or religious. You just have to make them think they came up with the idea themselves. You can’t appeal to their inner goodness. I have never met an Englishman I trusted to do the right thing out of sympathy.’

‘But that’s the problem, you see. No one’s focused on how we’re all connected. We only think about how we suffer, individually.