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Do you actually know how Nabokov's homophobia was manifested? Ie your Nazi relative (if he subscribed to the Nazi doctrine) believed that Jews should be physic
by omonra 12y ago
Do you actually know how Nabokov's homophobia was manifested?
Ie your Nazi relative (if he subscribed to the Nazi doctrine) believed that Jews should be physically exterminated. Slave owners actually owned slaves (although in Africa slavery was as or more common - without any racism involved, so not sure if it's even a required condition).
Meanwhile Nabokov viewed homosexuality akin to any other sexual aberration. For example how today we may look at someone with a foot fetish, yet whose life is completely taken over by it.
He didn't disavow his brother nor advocate violence - as a libertarian he believed that people were free to do in private as they pleased.
If you want to draw a valid example - you'd have to start by calling Darwin & Lincoln racists. Ie people that you probably admire yet who shared views with majority of the educated class at the time that today would be considered racist by many.
- parasubvert 12y agoBut historians do acknowledge that Lincoln and Darwin were racist in certain ways. They certainly are admirable people in many respects, but were far from saints.