Oompa Loompas from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” remind me of indentured slave labours from India and Africa, who were dragged to others parts of the world, having their human rights and dignity violated. Also, their resources were exploited. Kind of a dark after-thought, I guess.
Oompa Loompas from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” remind me of indentured slave labours from India and Africa, who were dragged to others parts of the world, having their human rights and dignity violated. Also, their resources were exploited. Kind of a dark after-thought, I guess.
That’s literally their backstory in the novel afair.
This is intentional.
The illustrations in the original book were very…um… politically incorrect.
I have read that the Oompa Loompas were originally just black people and even for the time the publisher thought that was a bit much.
Jesus, there are people that just need to shoehorn in some moralizing in every goddamn thread, isn’t there?
Thanks for that hot take.