[ SECRET POST #6044 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6044 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Oh, totally agree - the trope is deeply implicated in colonialism! In fact it was literally directly a tool of colonial exploitation - see the use of "martial races" as a construct in British India which is probably pretty directly transmitted into SFF by way of Kipling. You also have the ERB Barsoom stories, which are a major locus of early Proud Warrior Race stuff showing up in SFF - and, well, it's not exactly hard to make the point that ERB's fiction was tied up in colonialism.

So, I definitely agree that colonialism is bound up with the trope, yeah. I just don't think it's necessarily the *core* of the trope or its continuing appeal. And it's certainly *a* reason that the trope became common in SFF, because a lot of SFF is very directly transposed from literature of the frontier, or colonialism, or imperialism. But it's not the entire reason for it and it also exists outside of that context.