But lets see the Positive side: Now the Nazis wont have to burn thousands of books, saving tons of co2 in their Plan to take over the world with propaganda. So, yay for the envoirment I guess

  • Flying Squid
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    15 hours ago

    Dahl was a great author but wasn’t a very pc person , his family have had to apologise for his anti semitism.

    That is putting it very mildly.

    "There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere. Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”

    He said that in *checks notes* 1971.

    Worse, it was in response to criticism to an article he wrote that was justifiably criticizing Israel at a time when it wasn’t so popular to do so. And when he was accused of the old “you’re anti-Israel, so you’re anti-semitic” nonsense, he decided to go, “hell yeah I am!”

    • @AlpacaChariot
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      Oof

      He’d probably like today’s politics, it seems fashionable to just lean into anything bad someone says about you.