To be fair, this is after he got fired by his publisher after repeatedly demanding they deliver a new set of pencils to his house, preferably sending an attractive young woman to do it, a demand he believed they only refused because the company was run by greedy Jewish misers https://twitter.com/erinbiba/status/1318998801311555587 …
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On House I remember people arguing this meant House wasn't really a racist or misogynist, "just a misanthrope", and he just found racism and misogyny a convenient way to insult someone if they were a minority or a woman Okay but that IS racism and misogyny
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yeah.... we read his books a lot as kids and it always felt like we *should* have liked them more than we did. hearing about his bigotry helped us understand why the writing seemed off.
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He goes below the belt INSTANTLY when describing one of the grotesque villain characters you're meant to hate in his stories Like he absolutely just seethingly obsessively despises fat people
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Dahl's popularity with some children feels like it speaks to a very ugly reality: a lot of children are prone to cruelty and love seeing other people be cruel.
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It's the same sort of seething spite that permeates, say, Invader Zim. It's not really that HARD to depict a laughably vile setting full of laughably vile people and one child of narrator-assured virtue.
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There are a surprising amount of children’s entertainers who are very unpleasant, hateful people.
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