Am I the only one who gets a weird feeling from seeing movies w/ non-white victorian elites? Watching Jingle Jangle I was like, this is cute, but it accepts the myth that industrialization emerged entirely through innovation & not through massive racist theft & empire.

To me, whose forebears were on the receiving end of empire and massive theft, Victorian England is a lot like the antebellum South. There are big houses & a lot of cloth ... and all that money and fancy clothes come from somewhere.

For example, the empire made a lot of money from the sale of opium:

And while it ended chattel slavery, it continued abusive forms of indenture for non-white workers for a long time.

I want to say this without yucking peoples yum, while still asking them to look at what is so yummy and why people might be attracted to particular myths. I'd prefer either a more historical approach or a deep reimagining, something from a decolonized imagination.