1. Love that Wyndham Lewis is now being described as a victim of cancel culture because he wrote a book saying the best hope for peace was Adolf Hitler and spent much of the 1930s as fellow traveller to fascism.pic.twitter.com/bkr6sFNcrE
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3. Lewis himself is an interesting case because while he felt his career was hurt by his parafascist politics, it's hard to see how. His books continued to be publish, his paintings sold, he was art critic for The Listener (i.e. BBC), BBC adapted his novels for radio, etc
4. I mean maybe Wyndham Lewis suffered some penalty and if weren't for his period of alliance with fascism his reputation would be a bit higher. But all things considered he kept a name and continues to be read, collected, reprinted & taught. Where exactly is the cancellation?
when people make their lists of historical figures who would have been naturals on Twitter, they always forget about Lewis, who would have been like a duck to water
He really seems to be explicitly saying that freedom is dead because "there is nothing to protect us from the consequences of our rash words." This is usually the reductio ad absurdum proposed by people mocking the idea of cancel culture.
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