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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Apr 2019

      1. Wyndham Lewis was the original free speech grifter, the precursor to the Intellectual Dark Web. Here he is in 1950 lamenting the "consequences" he's suffered for his writing (i.e. his 1931 pro-Hitler book).pic.twitter.com/VFS8CTFiIC

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Apr 2019

      2. To rehearse a little: Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was an important British modernist painter, novelist, & social theorist. In the 1920s, in particular, he wrote some brilliant radical social critiques (Art of Being Ruled, Time & Western Man).

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Apr 2019

      3. Lewis was a much-praised writer in 1920s, but his reputation became more polorized with is 1931 book Hitler, arguing that the Nazi leader was "a man of peace" that British could work with.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Apr 2019

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      4. Lewis wrote a string of pro-appeasement tracts that were attacked by British left (although praised by conservative & establishment organs like Times Literary Supplement):https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1115005882083966976 …

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      "Fascism is the nearest thing to democracy." Times Literary Supplement in 1937, in an enthusiastic review of Wyndham Lewis tract arguing "internationalists" were plotting an unnecessary war against Germany/Italy/Japan. pic.twitter.com/pJRNf8b5Fr
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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Apr 2019

      5. Lewis' career suffered as a result of his fascist fellow travelling & also some roman a clefs he wrote that skirted the edge of Britain's (admittedly harsh & excessive) libel laws.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Apr 2019

      6. But it's also true that even though Lewis was criticized for his fascist fellow travelling he always had powerful patrons in publishing and art (including the BBC which repeatedly adapted his novels into radio dramas).

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 13 Apr 2019

          7. Lewis saw himself as a victim of censorship. "there is really nothing to protect us from the consequence of our rash words." As if there should be no consequences for praising Hitler.pic.twitter.com/omKsOnzOPK

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