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You're reading it today, when big noses don't immediately make you think of antisemitic stereotypes, /because that's not what antisemitism is today/. When the b
by lozenge 4y ago
You're reading it today, when big noses don't immediately make you think of antisemitic stereotypes, /because that's not what antisemitism is today/. When the books were written, it was.
The thrust of your argument is, Roald Dahl "turned off" his antisemitic thoughts then wrote a book with all these antisemitic tropes in them?
- oska 4y agoHe wrote a book about witches. I suggest you go and check out the noses on caricatures of witches if you can't bring any previously seen to mind. Here's one to get you started : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Friendly_Witch_Drawing.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Friendly...