This is the big one.

This is the big boy we're coming to next.

William Sleeman.

Uh-oh.

Chapter 3, page 1, 72.4, cop, troop zone.

So this is from Jacob Rees-Mogg's introduction to the piece. And don't worry, we're

going to define all of these terms as we go through. He's certainly fucking not.

Thuggy did not exist. And it never existed. No, it was merely the

product of lurid Victorian Orientalist sensationalism. This is the spectator article phenomenon,

isn't it? Where he's about to say, he's saying the right thing for the first paragraph. Yeah.

Because we'll get to what Thuggy is in a bit.

Because it's true.

It was the product, a product of the Victorians being lurid orientalist sensationalist.

Which is definitely the bit about the Victorians that Jacob Rees-Mogg doesn't like.

So he continues.

In case you hadn't gotten that from the previous bits. In defining what Orientalist means, he says, the Western Orientalists were capable of all kinds of wickedness

in the form of tales, stories, and accounts.

Their intent being to criticize and patronize Eastern civilizations

to diminish them in the eyes of Western readers and consumers,

and in so doing, to justify Western predation, exploitation,

settlement, and theft of their land in assets.

Okay, so hold on, hold on.

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