@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social I agree. I remember I first became aware of this bias when I read 'for the term of his natural life', a narrative about a convict sentenced to transportation to Australia. Of course, unlike all actual victims, the hero is of aristocratic birth, to make sure society can sympathise with him. I don't blame the author, he was working with the society he was born into, but it's abominable that literature of a democratic age retains the trope that only aristocrats possess humanity.