Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 week agoDahl 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.
AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oof
He’d probably like today’s politics, it seems fashionable to just lean into anything bad someone says about you.