Roald Dahl's family apologise for his anti-Semitic remarks

[quote]“Those prejudiced remarks are incomprehensible to us and stand in marked contrast to the man we knew and to the values at the heart of Roald Dahl’s stories, which have positively impacted young people for generations.

Those gurls are covering his tracks in the age of woke.

Have they said anything about his racism? The Oompa Loompas were Pygmy slave stereotypes

I have real issues with people “apologizing” for a man they likely never met, and had zero control over his behavior.

They shouldn’t for one, have to, it isn’t like they raised the man, but it also reeks of an attempt to maintain the “price” of his work, even though they probably had no connection with the man, had no real insight as far as how prejudice he may or may not have been.

This is all about selling right to future Charlie and the Chocolate Factory books/movies rights.

Man just take whatever money there is and keep your mouth shut. Your apologies are incredibly transparent.

If the family was serious, then they can donate money, for instance, to the Holocaust Memorial Museum or the Anti-Defamation League.

Doesn't everybody hate Jews?

R5 - well, I know that's supposed to be funny or outrageous, but in historical perspective, anti-semitism was very widespread for most of the 20th century.

Like racism - it was the default norm for most white citizens of any country.

Very few white people of the 20th century would pass the anti-semite and anti-racist test of today.

Anti-semitism was legal and widespread. Many hospitals and law firms would not hire Jews - hence Jewish hospitals (Mount Sinai) and Jewish law firms. Most Jewish actors changed their last names and hid that they were Jewish.

It isn't just whites who hate Jews. Have you known any black people?

Very happy to block you, r5. I won't miss your stupid hateful posts.

r8 doesn't get sarcasm and gallows humor. Are there any gay guys left on here?

I grew up Catholic. My father never said a negative word about the jewish community. My step grandfather evidently worked for a jewish owned company and hated them with a passion. I never understood his position. In our community the Catholics and the Jews were buried by the same funeral home. When my father was near death he reminded me about that.

He hated children, so he's okay in my book.

[quote]My step grandfather evidently worked for a jewish owned company and hated them with a passion.

That's a common sentiment among non-Jews who work for Jews. You hear this in NYC all the time.

[quote] I have real issues with people “apologizing” for a man they likely never met, and had zero control over his behavior.

They did know him. He was their dad, grandfather and great grandfather. He treated his family badly. If they want to apologize, let them

You don't need to take up for this bastard

He was a typical "greatest generation" entitled white straight male--unfaithful, racist, sexist, careless of his kids, totally obsessed with himself, money and image.

They have a lot of apologizing to do.

Wasn't he also a pedophile, or am I confusing him with a different children's book author?

I found this book of short stories is entertaining, every story has a surprise ending

Grandfather who was very progressive and liberal for his time ...hated Jews as he worked for them in their factories,

Oy! That's unfortunate. As a child of the 80s and 90s, Roald Dahl was my favorite childhood author. Unfortunately, many of our old favs (especially straight white men) turned out to be problematic. Nothing wrong with his family acknowledging and apologizing for his views.

Jews have a stranglehold on our nomenclature and freedom of expression. State a truth about them and they'll scream that you're anti-Semitic.

They are in control of banks, multinational corporations, global industries, and the media, yet still howl about being victims of something that occurred almost 100 years ago.

We are their slaves, because they are the Chosen People. Never forget that.

Aren’t you late for your Klan meeting R19?

Did they offer their apologies for the unconscionable way he treated our beloved Patricia Neal, AKA #1 Momma Walton? He was a terrible husband.

I loves Tales of The Unexpected though

He’s was a horrible, nasty man in general

I don't care how much of an asshole Dahl was (and he was a MAJOR asshole) he was an incredible writer. Again, we have to separate the art from the artist.

I've read of two accounts of Bette Davis going to visit Patricia Neal (who was a friend of hers) and Dahl behaving abominably to everyone both times. Davis couldn't stand him, but she put up with him because of her friendship with Patricia.

Check out Patricia Neal in the 1971 film "The Night Digger", (which also introduced DL fave Nicholas Clay).

Good performance by Neal and the screenplay was written by Dahl. Good music by Bernard Hermann, too.

[quote] Wasn't he also a pedophile, or am I confusing him with a different children's book author?

R15, are you thinking of Lewis Carroll? I don't believe that he was a pedophile but that's a common story (by people who didn't know him).

I think most people view it as a strictly cynical action of the Trustees to protect their income stream from any Woke accusations.

Dahl wasn't being antisemitic. He was merely making a well-worn point that many Jewish scholars have made over the centuries. (As for the 'why us' strain of faux-bewilderment: it's only worth the eye-rolling most intelligent people who are alive to injustice accord it. ) Historical injustice against Jews is, of course, vile, but to consider them wholly innocent parties is ridiculous. It's been a case of simple cause and effect. Action and reaction. As the Chinese and Indians and learnt to their detriment in Fiji, you can't alienate the natives in their own country, even if you do consider yourself The Chosen People – as at least, the Chinese also do.

R26 blaming Jews for anti-semitism. Fuck yourself.

He also had severe anger management problems. He would bitch whenever his books were adapted into film and significant changes were made to the source material. The Witches with the Jane Horrocks happy ending is the main example but there's also another instance of him raging over a film adaption of one of his books for making a significant change. I can't remember the title.

Husband and wife: Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal.

He was really there for Patricia Neal when she had her horrific stroke. He eventually left her for another woman. But he was a great stabilizing force in her life when she needed him the most.

[quote]blaming Jews for anti-semitism. Fuck yourself.

Empathetic Jews have always rightly laid the blame for antisemitism at their own feet. Including the Jews who fight for justice for Palestinians, and Jewish commmunity leaders in Poland and Germany of the 1930s who warned their communities about the social damage their dominance of sectors of industry and academica, and exclusionary behaviour, was fuelling. It made the Nazi scapegoating of them for all social ills easy-peasy. Israeli Prime Ministers in latter years have been one long line of criminal thugs that make Trump look like a Mid-West hayseed.

Something I fucking hate about this place is that the R5 and R31 types comment constantly, yet if you bring it up anywhere or quote them, there's about a dozen elderloungers who start screaming for links, and when you post them, they say "No, that's not what this fine chap meant!" and start defending it.

Actually I think R31 is AYB, given that he's trying to sound all, like, super smart n stuff, then slips with "academica." Another thing I fucking hate about this place is that shitheads like that guy have been around over a decade and no one seems to care.

You type like a creepy stalker R32 who can't tolerate differing opinion to your own.

R30 Dr. Suess did the same exact thing to his wife who had cancer. He left her for her nurse.

No, R33. R32 is standing up to the anti-semitism of R5, R26, R31, and you. People who try to justify the hatred of an entire group of people on the basis of race, religion, or culture are bigots. Period. There is no justification. You, R32, are a bigot in denial. You want to find some way of smearing millions of people and then absolving yourself somehow. The Nazis did this too. But rest assured, you are a terrible person.

R24 That is such a bad, good, creepy, clever, grubby movie.

Have they apologised yet for him being bald with a long nose.

[quote]R30 He was really there for Patricia Neal when she had her horrific stroke. He eventually left her for another woman. But he was a great stabilizing force in her life when she needed him the most.

Yes. He was a MAJOR asshole, but he did help whip her back into shape after her stroke.

He probably enjoyed bossing her around throughout the process.

But he allowed a Jew, Gene Wilder, to play his most iconic character, Willy Wonka.

[quote]No, [R33]. [R32] is standing up to the anti-semitism of

Give the name-calling a break, luv.

I capital L Loathe anti-semitism as much as the next person, but equally, I'm not blind to Jewish culpability. I've fully alive to the greatness of Jewish history, but also its great failings. Are you going to label the many Jews who agree with this point of view, anti-semitic as well? Of course you would! Well bully for you. It doesn't change facts. Read history. Read the speeches made by several leading Rabbis in the 30s. Read of the efforts by noble Israelis fighting against the stealing of Palestinian land. But, of course, you won't. So I have zero intention of going round in circles arguing with you because you're an emotionally immature SJW goddess who only thinks in black and white, and incapable of rational debate. And when challenged, can only wail, scream injustice, and stalk, seeking to shut the other individual down.

[quote]beloved Patricia Neal, AKA #1 Momma Walton?

Technically, she was #2. Mrs. Walton was originally Mrs. Spencer in Spencer's Mountain. Her name was changed to protect the innocent.

[quote]I'm not blind to Jewish culpability

R40 illustrates the Jew-hating premise that those fucking Jews MUST be guilty of something to reinforce his Jew hatred. Not "anti-semitic", more self-loathers ignorant of/in denial about Jewish history, still truly believing that Jew-hating scum will tolerate them, leave them alone only if they collaborate in reiterating Jew hatred. What those pathetic, self-loathing fools also ignore is that collaborators with Jew haters ended up in the ovens of Dachau and Buchenwald too.

Go and have ten children in the West Bank, R42 sweetie, like the other crazed U.S. new settlers, in a nice sponsored townhouse on land stolen from one of the Palestinian peasants who've been harrassed for years, their olive trees cut down and burnt. Maybe if you're lucky, Netanyahu will give you a motherhood medal! You can embroider a cushion: "Culpability, Schmulpability."

Times change. This shit is ridiculous.

R43 steps right up to proudly attest that she's not only Jew-hating trash, but when scum like her spew "Zionist", they really mean JEW.

R45, most Jews would not agree that Zionist and Jew mean the exact same thing.

R46 More Jew-hater justification. Unsubstantiated overgeneralization to reiterate your Jew hatred.

You're bigoted scum, fooling no one but yourself.

He sounds like an SJW talking about white people.........

“There is a trait in the White character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Whites. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere.”

If you go around claiming to be the Chosen People, that arrogance is going to ruffle some feathers.

Hey R47, you reactionary, ignorant asshole, first off, you're not talking to the person you were talking to. Second, I'm sorry you don't like a simple statement of fact. Here, why don't you go educate yourself you fucking ignoramus.

[quote]To cut a long story short: although many Jews identify with Zionism, there are still many different points of view. That is reason enough not to mix up the words 'Jew', 'Israelis' and 'Zionists'.

Cannot believe the amount of disinformation and misinformation being spewed by r31 and his ilk here. Some Jews in some places in some eras of history have had and possibly misused money and/or power. But the vast majority of Jewry over history have been forced to live in poverty, with few opportunities for improvement. For 300 years, the majority of Jews in Europe were forced to live in the Pale of Settlement - basically, land so poor in western Russia that no one wanted it. Over 5 million Jews were living there in 1900 in desperate poverty. Jews were repeatedly evicted from their homes and lands in Christian regimes - England, Spain, Portugal, Germany and France all expelled them at one time or other, at least from the middle ages onward. Usually if they weren't butchered on their way out of the land in question, their belongings were confiscated as they left. If to r31 this is the mark of a people who brought it all upon themselves, then he is the exact same sort of person who would say that a dog that has been kicked, starved, beaten and is mangy must have brought it upon itself.

It's one thing for rabbis and others to have cautioned Jews that bringing too much attention to themselves is likely to bring reprisals from surrounding non-Jewish populations - it's another thing to claim that they told their fellow Jews that it would be their fault if they were attacked. If I tell someone that his only route to work is full of muggers and ne'er-do-wells and to be careful, and he nonetheless gets injured on his way to work, I'm not going to claim that it was his fault.

I'm not defending Netanyahu and his supporters, who are scum. But I would never describe them as representative of Jews in general.

I'm not Jewish, so I'm not writing this from the perspective of a Jew. But unlike r31, I actually have bothered to educate myself about the history of the Jews from sources other than the Stormfront website.

When I hear anyone utter the word 'Zionism' I leave the room.

What's up with folks apologizing for others? It doesn't work that way, it means nothing.

When they are speaking for or against it, R52?

[quote] They have a lot of apologizing to do.

No they don't. Why should anyone apologize for things they haven't done themselves? Obviously they're doing it for the sake of the money made out of his state, but no one should have to apologize for anyone but themselves.

An apology of anyone who isnt the person is also meaningless, why would anyone care that a son, grandson or even great grandson is sorry for something they didn't to? It's a stupid concept.

[quote]Some Jews in some places in some eras of history have had and possibly misused money and/or power.

Would it be possible for you to shoot yourself in the foot with both barrows by being so laughably equivocal, R51?

Possibly not? Let's say: almost possibly, magically, fantastically, supercalfragisalistically certainly not!

Barrows?

It's French for Lesbian, r57.

R50 I know exactly who I’m referring to, trash. Who truly believes that when she and other Jew-hating scum spew “Zionist”, everyone is far too stupid to comprehend that they’re not spewing their filth against Muslim Zionists or Japanese Zionist or British Zionist or Druse Zionist or Xtian Zionist. That the filth they’re spewing is against and meant solely for and about JEWS.

R51 Valiant effort positing that culturally/socially endemic, acceptable Jew hatred perhaps shouldn’t be. And then falling into the same Jew-hating cesspool with the wholly unnecessary/unwarranted “I'm not defending Netanyahu and his supporters, who are scum”. Political Jew-hatred didn’t work out for Corbyn and Labour either.

People who aren't Jewish or Muslim getting involved in "the Israel-Palestine conflict" confuse me - Maybe you didn't get the memo: They're all nuts!

I'm loathed to engage with a Nazi sympathiser but one question regarding this

[quote]Dahl wasn't being antisemitic. He was merely making a well-worn point that many Jewish scholars have made over the centuries. (As for the 'why us' strain of faux-bewilderment: it's only worth the eye-rolling most intelligent people who are alive to injustice accord it. ) Historical injustice against Jews is, of course, vile, but to consider them wholly innocent parties is ridiculous. It's been a case of simple cause and effect. Action and reaction. As the Chinese and Indians and learnt to their detriment in Fiji, you can't alienate the natives in their own country, even if you do consider yourself The Chosen People – as at least, the Chinese also do.

So if Jews aren't native to the European, North African and Middle Eastern countries where they experienced appalling hostility, anti Jewish laws and murder, where ARE Jews native to?

I don’t consider myself anti-Semitic. I lived with a Jewish grandmother for three years and learned a lot from her, good and bad-

1. From birth, Jews have a strong work ethic ingrained from their community and an insular network among themselves to propel other Jews towards better being better employed. If you’re looking from the outside, I can see why you’d consider it anticompetitive and disdainful. But, There are no Jewish ghettos. They revere their personal standing within their community and cherish the connection.. As a middle-aged gay man in 2020, it makes me a bit jealous.

2. They consider arguing, negotiation and debate as a sport meant to be won. I learned how to win an argument from her and how to frame discussion towards landing on the other side with what I want out of a situation. There’s nothing wrong with that- unless you’re on the losing side.

3. Money and saving money is a priority. Surprisingly, I never looked at all the little fees and surcharges companies foist on us- until I lived with her. I learned how to live more frugally, to be more savvy about comparing, researching and agreeing to service contracts and to think twice before a compulsive purchase and delay it. While someone could say having only one light on in the dark apartment every night is being “cheap”, that woman was sitting on half a million dollars in savings. It’s all about the haggling gracefully!

I also think that there are personal traits within each Jew that have more to do with how they were each taught to process guilt- rather than the religion itself. Unfortunately, she chose a $3200 money grab of my apartment deposit rather than friendship and I never spoke to her again. Many of her friends commented after I moved out how they were surprised how long I lasted with her, but that had to do more to do with her as a PERSON, not a Jew.

It’s important we are still able to call out bad behavior of an INDIVIDUAL PERSON and not be called anti-Semitic because of it.

[quote]1. From birth, Jews have a strong work ethic ingrained from their community and an insular network among themselves to propel other Jews towards better being better employed. If you’re looking from the outside, I can see why you’d consider it anticompetitive and disdainful. But, There are no Jewish ghettos. They revere their personal standing within their community and cherish the connection.. As a middle-aged gay man in 2020, it makes me a bit jealous.

Bullshit? Tell that to the strictly religious Jewish communities who live in abject poverty.

[quote]2. They consider arguing, negotiation and debate as a sport meant to be won. I learned how to win an argument from her and how to frame discussion towards landing on the other side with what I want out of a situation. There’s nothing wrong with that- unless you’re on the losing side.

This is not a Jewish trait, there are Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims, Catholics, Protestants, Jehovahs Witnesses, Quakers and atheists who also encourage their kids to stand up for themselves.

[quote]3. Money and saving money is a priority. Surprisingly, I never looked at all the little fees and surcharges companies foist on us- until I lived with her. I learned how to live more frugally, to be more savvy about comparing, researching and agreeing to service contracts and to think twice before a compulsive purchase and delay it. While someone could say having only one light on in the dark apartment every night is being “cheap”, that woman was sitting on half a million dollars in savings. It’s all about the haggling gracefully!

Again, you don't think Muslims or Sikhs or Catholics save vouchers, shop around for the cheapest deal? People who experienced poverty as children (which many immigrant families did) know the value of things better than anyone and make a point of never allowing themselves to be in a position where it might happen again. This is a universal sentiment in Europe and America and far from exclusive to Jews.

Maybe you don't know that the connection between Jews and money goes back to medieval times where Jews were restricted in the employment they were permitted to do - money lending was a job that was permitted because it was considered so lowly.

You're full of shit.

[quote] where ARE Jews native to?

Jewlandia.

Dahl was a creep. Then again, most writers, both men and women, are creeps.

Elaborate, r65?

R66 So many seem like creepy voyeurs constantly sizing people up ...and usually finding them lacking according to their insanely high standards. Zeroing in on any character flaws or vulnerabilities. And assuming that their perceptions are always correct. A lot just seem like condescending negative assholes.

r59, Netanyahu has been charged with bribery and fraud and breach of trust in three separate corruption cases in Israel. In my book, a person like that is scum. I would say the same about Paul Manafort , a non-Jew. It has nothing to do with a person's religion, it has everything to do with a person's moral compass. Netanyahu's supporters, like Trump's supporters, look past moral failings as though they mean nothing.

Patricia Neal was too old to play Momma Walton. She looked like she had John Boy when she was 40.

[quote]He was a typical "greatest generation" entitled white straight male--unfaithful, racist, sexist, careless of his kids, totally obsessed with himself, money and image.

Wow, everything about this also screams Asian male except the white part.

[quote]R5 - well, I know that's supposed to be funny or outrageous

Have you been asleep for 5 years? You're still brushing off shit posts like R5 like they're just bad jokes? GTFOOH

[quote]It has nothing to do with a person's religion, it has everything to do with a person's moral compass.

R68 There was absolutely NO reason to mention Israel, the Israel government or a member thereof in a post about discrimination and persecution of Jews in Europe. What you did was no different to the rest of the "Jews MUST be guilty of something" bigoted trash on this thread.

And since many of Israel's leaders from across the political spectrum have not only been accused of bribery but spent time in jail for same, your singling out Netanyahu for absence of "moral compass" is ignorant as well as bigoted.

Someone needs a cookie and a nap.

Another bigoted turd floats to the top of the DL cesspool.

R15, you’re probably thinking of William Mayne.

This thread seems to have been like catnip for all the Jew despising DLers. Not at all surprising to me that many posters in this thread have previously been blocked. I had the great displeasure reading this first without logging in.

I would very much like to believe that most of the authors of such comments are people who have never known any Jews IRL, and they're simply repeating falsehoods, and stereotypes they've been indoctrinated to believe their entire lives. I'm generous enough to consider that they have never really questioned the validity of such statements.

It simply isn't rational to believe or claim there is a "character" that applies to any entire group, be it ethnic, racial, or religious. Anyone who believes this, and attempts to defend Dahl's remarks as not anti-semetic is intellectually very lazy, and incapable of seeing reality clearly.

Good day, Jew haters

British comedian, British Jew and now children's author David Baddiel has been vocal critic of Dahl for the last few years and was interviewed about the apology.

Worth remembering that Dahl's racism has been a matter of public record for years now - only 2 years ago the Royal Mint refused to put his characters on commemorative coins because of his views.

[quote]Patricia Neal was too old to play Momma Walton. She looked like she had John Boy when she was 40.

And in certain scenes, she was hilariously, unintentionally camp. "John-Boy, are you smoking up here?"

I bust out laughing the first time I watched that scene and I laugh each time I see it. In that flimsy house, don't you think she'd be able to smell the smoke, even if he had his window wide open?

He was wanking over a pair of Cora-Beth's bloomers

[quote]It simply isn't rational to believe or claim there is a "character" that applies to any entire group, be it ethnic, racial, or religious.

Every fucking person on the planet recognises the distinct characteristics of races. Except SJWers, and a deranged semitic hall monitor.

Their wouldn't be Irish jokes and Jewish jokes if there wasn't.

[quote] …the distinct characteristics of races…

There may be exceptions to these characteristics. But it is The exception that prove the rule.

STFU, nazi @R80.

Right, r80, we have Irish jokes and Polish jokes because they’re distinct races. You moron.

In countries other than the US, "race" is interchangeable with "ethnicity." British people, for example, will refer to the German race, the Italian race etc.

That's stupid and presumptuous. I suspect he wasn't ashamed of his prejudices at all. I wonder if they also apologize for the royalties they cash-in on,

I read one of his books when I was a teen. He came across as a nasty man. Never went back to him.

It’s funny that the progressives are so stretchy on “gender” and strict on “race.” It’s like they’re being anti-science on purpose.

And Neal was from one of the most redneck states in America. Must have made for interesting conversations at the dinner table. But she was a Democrat, wasn’t she?

Pat Neal committed suicide and then that bitch Glenn Close covered it up and inadvertently framed Charles Dutton.

It was a whole thing.

Patricia Neal came along at just the right time. Hollywood was looking for sultry, yet distant women and she fit the bill perfectly. I bet Joan Crawford was pissed off because Neal (plus age) was pushing Joan out of those roles. You can imagine Joan in "The Fountainhead" "A Face In The Crowd" and "Breakfast At Tiffanys".

Imagining Joan Crawford in "Breakfast At Tiffanys" makes my tummy hurt.

[quote]Imagining Joan Crawford in "Breakfast At Tiffanys" makes my tummy hurt.

At least Joan never had a die-hard Nazi as a mother! In an early bio of Leni Riefenstahl it states she said she saw "that bitch Heemstra" (Baroness Ella) coming out of Hitler's room deshelved and sweaty. You won't find THAT in any Hepburn biography.

Fuck that little scarecrow. Joan was born to play Hepburn's roles!

Joan as Sabrina really would have been... quite something.

Or why not “Robin & Marion”?

Joan would have been stellar in Sylvia's role in Midnight Cowboy!

R39 His other most iconic character Matilda, was also played by a Jew.

Dahl's beloved granddaughter Sophie is married to miniature Jew Jamie Cullum. Cullum's grandmother managed to flee Nazi Germany for Jerusalem, but her family were murdered in the Holocaust.

Dahl and Cullum have 2 daughters together.

Just imagine how furious Dahl would be at this.

[quote] Just imagine …

That would be absolutely pointless speculation because opinions change over time, human beings change over time and societies change over time.

[quote]That would be absolutely pointless speculation because opinions change over time, human beings change over time and societies change over time.

Roald Dahl was born in 1916. He was 22 when Kristallnacht took place., he was 29 when Auschwitz and other concentration camps were liberated.

Dahl was 32 when the state of Israel was created, he was 56 when Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics.

He was 67 when he gave an interview to the New Statesmen when he made his most famous comments. This is not a man who was able to change for the better.

[quote] … able to change for the better.

We can save him if we PRAY very hard and PRAY for very long for his soul.

[quote]Patricia Neal came along at just the right time. Hollywood was looking for sultry, yet distant women and she fit the bill perfectly.

Apparently Barbara Stanwyck didn't think too highly of Neal, when Jack Warner hired her for the role of Dominique in THE FOUNTAINHEAD. Barbara and Ayn Rand were both members of that ridiculous right-wing group of Hollywood conservatives - The Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals which included dyed in the wool bigots like Walter Brennan and Hedda Hopper. Stanwyck was a huge fan of the novel and told Ayn Rand that she was born to play it. She was the one who got Jack Warner to buy the screen rights to the novel. But Rand thought that Stanwyck was a fine actress, but she lacked the sex appeal needed to portray Dominique Francon, Howard Roark's love interest. She didn't say this to Barbara's face, however; she told Jack Warner, who agreed with Rand. Stanwyck was so incensed that she asked to terminate her short-term contract with Warner Bros. I think that she may have snubbed Neal a couple of times at some industry events; especially during Neal's affair with Gary Cooper. Barbara was friends with Gary and his wife and was going through something similar with her husband, the handsome but wussy Robert Taylor. They made up years later after Stanwyck saw her performance in THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES.

[quote] …sultry, yet distant women…

Barbara Stanwyck's sneering, cold face precluded her from playing sultry women.

Did he hate homosexuals as well, like J.R.R. Tolkien?

[quote]Did he hate homosexuals as well, like J.R.R. Tolkien?

If he did then he'll hate 2 of his grand daughters being lesbians.

[quote]Did he hate homosexuals as well

If he did it was piquant that he was portrayed by Dirk Bogarde in 'The Patricia Neal Story' (co-star Glenda Jackson). He might indeed have preferred to see 'The Roald Dahl Story.'

Bump

He was really a homely man. He had to have had a big peen. Patricia Neal was with Gary Cooper, FFS. Once a girl got that anaconda, she can settle for nothing else.

Stereotypes exist for a reason. Jews have some shared traits that suck, including obsession with money and exclusion. This is based on my personal real-world experience.

Sorry, but no group is beyond reproach.

And your group is what, r108? Can we reproach you?

R108 I hate working for Jews. They treat their goy staff terribly

Lol bumped for the anti-semites? They're kinda like the anti-"oriental" troll that everyone ignores in the Top Chef thread.

Dahl was well known to be an utter, utter bigoted asshole, far beyond what can be considered 'of the time'. He was also a brilliant writer. Neither cancels the other out.

His children's stories were entertaining, but pretty sick.

A lot of anti-Semitism is jealousy because it is a fact that many Jews make it to the top in academia, science, business etc. despite being such a small percentage of the world's population.

When a group of people who are shut out of the world's schools, universities, country clubs, guilds, neighborhoods, retirement homes (notice the anti-semitism in the movie "Chinatown") etc. turn around and make a success of their lives despite being outsiders, people get jealous.

And I am not claiming that Jews are smarter than others. So how is it that so many are so prominent? Do the math.

To the comment that "Jews are exclusive and exclusionary" :

Who excluded them first? Jews were not allowed in WASP institutions. They had to make their own.

R113 Jews are not above cheating

R113, they’re going to say that they help each other out and hire fellow Jews. You know this. Meanwhile, Asians are #1 in everything.

Roald also hated children, which explains his books.

Refuse to do business with Jews or take them on as clients

LA is being ruined by shoddy construction work being done half-ass and corner-cutting style by Israeli Jews.

R118 bumps a thread to spew Jew hatred reminiscent of Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church. Still hears Father Murphy whispering in his ear while fucking his fat 8 year old ass "it's them Jews, boy".

R120 Get a job, Matt Anscher

R19 was already blocked.

No one is above cheating R115 and many religious people think it's okay to lie and cheat people not of their faith. I have a Christian friend who refuses to do business with companies who advertise being "faith based" or "Christian" as she said they are always dishonest.

He was fucking British what do you expect, tongue kisses for pickaninnies?

What a lovely comment r124.

CUNT.

No one else ever got the creepies from his stories? They're kind of creepy. No one else was confused and felt weirded out by all the strangeness in Dr. Seuss? It was a little too weird sometimes, with those weird staircases and doors with no decorations. Am I really that much more perceptive than everyone else? Admit it. This stuff is kind of creepy.

R126, as I get older than God, I have begun to see that ALL art and performance (writing, dancing, singing) is compensation. Perfectly good-looking, healthy, wealthy and happy individuals usually just live life, not perform mimesis of some kind. That said, I love all forms of art and performance and am glad compensation works so beautifully sometimes. Dahl was seriously messed up from everything I've read. He had some good points but was destructive overall.

[quote] I have begun to see that ALL art and performance (writing, dancing, singing) is compensation.

Huh? You mean people do it just to make money?

He resented being circumcised and blamed the Jews for it.