Comments by "" (@premodernist_history) on "Lady of the Library" channel.

  1. It should not be surprising that Dahl was racist and anti-semitic. On the contrary, it would be surprising to come across a white author of his generation (or of the previous 8 or 10 generations at a minimum) who WASN'T racist and anti-semitic. Those views were nearly universal and unquestioned among whites until relatively recently. Even if they didn't express such prejudices in writing, you can be confident that virtually every white author of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries shared those views, or at least took them for granted and didn't examine them. Exceptions would be rare enough to be notable. By the way, NAACP is pronounced "N double-A C P".
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