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TIL Roald Dahl (author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and many
other children's books) also invented a cerebral shunt that has been
used to treat thousands of children with brain injuries.
(URL) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade-Dahl-Till_valve (https://en.wikipedia.org)
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|u/FoFoAndFo - 1 month
|
|Saw this on the askreddit thread about people who said “fuck it, i’ll do
|it myself.” Dahl’s kid needed it so he enlisted the aid of a toymaker
|and they designed a better shunt for relieving pressure. I’m spending
|too much time on this site… Edit: Shoutout u/miclugo for finding [the t
|hread](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1erbo5x/what_is_the_g
|reatest_fuck_it_ill_do_it_myself/).
|u/BigCommieMachine - 1 month
|
|Leo Szilard, who discovered the nuclear chain reaction was diagnosed
|with bladder cancer and was treated using Colbalt-60 radiation
|treatment….that he created.
|u/miclugo - 1 month
|
|I vaguely remembered "Heimlich was saved from choking by the
|Heimlich maneuver" but then I searched and it turns out I
|misremembered it. [Heimlich saved someone else from choking by
|doing the Heimlich
|maneuver.](https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/27/us/heimlich-inventor-uses-
|maneuver/index.html) (Heimlich is dead now, after a heart attack in
|2016. He did not die of choking.)
|u/paleoterrra - 1 month
|
|He was alive 8 years ago?? Why did I think he was from like the
|1800’s??
|u/ChefInsano - 1 month
|
|The Heinlich maneuver wasn’t even invented until 1975.
|Millennials are basically the first generation to be taught how
|to do it in grade school.
|u/notthatpowerful - 1 month
|
|We Gen Xers tried that first, and if it didn't work, we
|resorted to Heimlich.
|u/This_User_Said - 1 month
|
|I was choking on a piece of beef from my mom's beef stew
|when I was a kid. She thought I was horsing around but I
|started getting urgent. She shook her head and locked her
|arm back-- that alone scared me enough it hawk it back up
|myself. She then proceeded to tell me to eat it right this
|time.
|u/Yung_Turbo - 1 month
|
|"Chew your food instead of playing with it next time!" I
|see we were raised by similar mothers lmao.
|u/frabjous_goat - 1 month
|
|When he was little, my bio dad was sucking the meat off a
|chicken bone and accidentally inhaled it. Without missing a
|beat, my Opah flipped him upside down and walloped him in
|the back, sending the chicken bone flying across the room.
|Then he set my dad on his feet and went back to eating his
|dinner.
|u/DevelopmentSad2303 - 1 month
|
|I thought you guys tried to pinky it out or something
|u/THElaytox - 1 month
|
|Exactly what happened when I choked on a taco at the salad
|bar in Wendy's, mom slapped me on the back until I spit it
|out. Have hated hard tacos ever since.
|u/1drlndDormie - 1 month
|
|As a millenial, no one taught me how do the heinlich manuever
|in school or any other first aid for that matter. I took a
|childcare and first aid course that the local hospital offered
|when I was in middle school one summer.
|u/DJDaddyD - 1 month
|
|Also millennial here, I was taught the heimlich in either
|4th or 5th grade. However, through 4th grade I was in school
|on a USMC base and from 5th -7th was in a parochial school
|so that mightve been why
|u/ArchaicBrainWorms - 1 month
|
|Millennial as well. In first grade, this girl Alica
|started choking on a piece of chicken. After a long 10
|seconds of lunch monitors being panicky and ineffective,
|the custodian casually jogged over and hit her with a
|closed fist pop in the middle of the back and sent the
|chicken chunk flying across the room. If you can unclog
|a commode you can unclog an esophagus
|u/otherwiseguy - 1 month
|
|And the tail end of Gen X / Xennials.
|u/PupDuga - 1 month
|
|Gen x here, learnt it in junior high
|u/BigBCNish - 1 month
|
|And yet, in an ironic twist, the creator of the Segway tragically
|died in a Segway accident. Life’s got a dark sense of humor
|sometimes.
|u/5coolest - 1 month
|
|Not the creator. The guy who bought Segway from him.
|u/welsman13 - 1 month
|
|He didn't create it. He was just the current CEO of the company
|after purchasing the segway off the original creator.
|u/miclugo - 1 month
|
|Maybe the guy who claims to have founded Tesla could die in a
|Tesla accident.
|u/_Joab_ - 1 month
|
|the word "tragically" is doing some heavy lifting in that
|sentence. It's literally like a tragedy play.
|u/adamcoe - 1 month
|
|Poor Lou Gehrig, died of Lou Gehrig's disease
|u/Comfortable_Hunt_684 - 1 month
|
|John Lawrence the founder of Nuclear Medicine saved his mom the same
|way but 23 years earlier. His brother was Earnest L the founder of
|"Big Science", US nuclear research (Lawrence Berkley and Livermore
|labs are named after him) and their neighborhood friend Merle Tuve
|was the founder of Geophysics. Not bad for being from Canton, SD,
|population 3k. The experience of the Lawrence Brothers in nuclear
|medicine became crucial in saving their mother, when she was
|diagnosed with uterine cancer in 1937. When they were told at Mayo
|Clinic that she had three months left to live, John Lawrence brought
|her to be treated by radiologist Dr. Robert S. Stone, one of his
|collaborators. Stone successfully used high-energy X-rays obtained
|from an x-ray tube that had been invented by David Sloan, one of the
|first members of Ernest Lawrence's team at Berkeley.[5] Gunda
|Lawrence lived about another 15 years after the treatment, until the
|age of 83.[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Lawrence
|u/Nemisis_the_2nd - 1 month
|
|> Saw this on the askreddit thread about people who said “fuck it,
|i’ll do it myself.” It seems like a theme with British authors.
|Brian Jaques was a milkman who spent his free time reading for blind
|children. His problem was that he didn't like authors such as Tolkien
|because they relied on a lot of visual descriptions. His "fuck it,
|I'll do it myself" moment was when he decided he could do better and
|wrote this little collection of books called "*Redwall*", which are
|often held in the same regard as LotR and other British classics.
|It's also worth noting that Jaques had no formal education in
|literature beyond high school, which he left at the age of 15.
|u/Gimpalong - 1 month
|
|"Little collection." My now-9 and now-6 year old have been reading
|through all 22 of the Redwall novels for the past 3 years...
|exclusively. We're one book from finished and as much as I like
|Turnip-potato-beetroot pie, cold fizzy strawberry cordial, damson
|shortcrust and cream, cowslip and parsley liquor, brown ale, cheese
|and mushroom pasties, and nutbread cake iced with clover honey, I
|can't wait to read something else.
|u/Nemisis_the_2nd - 1 month
|
|Lol, i feel your pain. I would highly suggest moving on to Terry
|Pratchett next, and maybe ease them into it with "The wee free
|men." (And the rest of the Tiffany Aching series) His books are
|funny, intelligent, and written by someone with a strong sense of
|morals and a keen understanding of society. Edit: I forgot "The
|amazing Maurice and his educated rodents". Its maybe a better
|bridge from Redwall.
|u/DontTellHimPike - 1 month
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|CRIVENS!
|u/-SaC - 1 month
|
|Snafflin' coobeastie!
|u/Papaofmonsters - 1 month
|
|Wally wally! It's the tapping of the foot!
|u/Winter-Duck5254 - 1 month
|
|Discworld by Pratchett is amazing. Honestly. But, I would say
|they're for teens/pre teens/adults. Not from content, but just
|general ideology and reading comprehension. He did a series for
|younger readers as well as a couple one off's and they are still
|just as good, they just don't have the complexity the Discworld
|books can have. I LOVE Pratchett. Can't recommend him enough. A
|true gem of an author. Truly. I don't get emotional in general
|but that man brought love and life and just good goddamn values
|to me as a young man that I didn't get from RL role models at
|that time of my life. I will forever be in his debt. I feel I am
|a better human being for having read his works.
|u/Nemisis_the_2nd - 1 month
|
|> and just good goddamn values to me as a young man that I
|didn't get from RL role models at that time of my life. I'll
|admit I had decent role models, but pratchett definitely
|affected me too. Even decades later I still see Sam Vimes as a
|bit of a moral compass. What would ~~Jesus~~ Vimes do?
|u/ihvnnm - 1 month
|
|Smoke a cigar and walk the streets with paper-thin soles. My
|moral compass would be Carrot, such a nice guy you can't
|help but like him.
|u/necronboy - 1 month
|
|I dunno. He looked at evidence and then rammed a sword
|through a guy and into a wall. As Vimes says
|(paraphrasing) "Hope your enemy is bad as he will let you
|live to suffer, while a good man will kill you to end your
|suffering ."
|u/mossling - 1 month
|
|All of the Pratchett Witches stories are fantastic on audio
|(unabridged). The woman who reads them is amazing and each
|character is so distinct. I highly recommend them. 
|u/TempleMade_MeBroke - 1 month
|
|When I was a kid and wanted something different, I still wanted
|some aspects of the fantasy genre but wanted something a bit more
|modern and techy, so I started reading the Artemis Fowl series.
|Highly recommend at least the first two or three, I'm not sure if
|I continued past that but there's like 8 of them now and a spin
|off series called the Fowl Twins
|u/WickedFenrir - 1 month
|
|Good reading imo in the general realm of books but less of the
|fantasy side, I'm pretty sure I remember the Alex Rider series
|being really well done. Fowl was definitely good but on the
|fantasy end of the spectrum I also used to read a lot of the
|Percy Jackson and Animorphs books when I was a kid
|u/Wolf_of_Fenris - 1 month
|
|I've read most of those.. you can't read em' without snacks ,
|right ? 🤣
|u/Nemisis_the_2nd - 1 month
|
|> you can't read em' without snacks , right ? 🤣 You need a
|minimum of a plate of oat and honey scones and a glass of
|dandelion and burdock cordial, with a bowl of candied chestnuts
|on thr side.
|u/Wolf_of_Fenris - 1 month
|
|Dammit man! Now I have to raid the pantry...
|u/Sparriw1 - 1 month
|
|Man, I loved those books as a kid
|u/awkwaman - 1 month
|
|I had the pleasure of meeting him about 25 years ago at a local book
|shop. Got my copy of Long Patrol signed. Always had one of those
|books in my backpack in school.
|u/Nemisis_the_2nd - 1 month
|
|> Always had one of those books in my backpack in school. Same.
|Unfortunately at that age I wasn't really too interested in the
|people who wrote the books, just the books themselves. In
|hindsight Jaques seems like he was a genuinely amazing human, and
|I wish I had got the chance to meet him: Just an average guy from
|a working family that spent his time helping the people around
|him, but was particularly keen to support the children in his
|life, whether it was someone he knew, or just entertaining them at
|a book signing. Sir Terry Pratchett is another of those I wish I
|had met.
|u/Nemisis_the_2nd - 1 month
|
|I just discovered that a lot of the audio books were narrated by
|him. Guess I know what I'm downloading now.
|u/Sekmet19 - 1 month
|
|His food descriptions were fire
|u/bros402 - 1 month
|
|You should read Steven Brust's food descriptions he makes me so
|hungry
|u/Mattriculated - 1 month
|
|I want to go to Valabar's so badly...
|u/Vakama905 - 1 month
|
|Mmm, strawberry cordial…
|u/miclugo - 1 month
|
|I had to go find the thread - [here it is.](https://www.reddit.com/r/A
|skReddit/comments/1erbo5x/what_is_the_greatest_fuck_it_ill_do_it_mysel
|f/)
|u/thunderroad21 - 1 month
|
|Me too. Good to see it again today. Hope to see it again tomorrow,
|maybe as a meme.
|u/CouchPotatoFamine - 1 month
|
|Yep, I saw it there too.
|u/TheNerevar89 - 1 month
|
|That's definitely where OP learned this from lol I remember reading it
|from that as well
|u/Funmachine - 1 month
|
|I am all fucked out. That goddamn woman has absolutely screwed me from
|one end of the room to the other for three goddam nights.- Roald Dahl
|u/Orange-V-Apple - 1 month
|
|Uh…source?
|u/fnord_happy - 1 month
|
|His adult stories are really something. Shocking if you are only
|familiar with his kids stuff
|u/Funmachine - 1 month
|
|It's not an adult story. It's a letter he wrote back to his CO
|when he was working as a spy in WW2.
|u/pedanticPandaPoo - 1 month
|
|Similar to how sex makes babies, you don't produce childrens
|stories without writing fucking stories first. It's just science.
|u/johnnymetoo - 1 month
|
|I loved *My Uncle Oswald*.
|u/Funmachine - 1 month
|
|Roald Dahl used to be a spy in WW2. He was one of the inspirations
|for James Bond. This is a letter he sent back to his CO after
|seducing the wife of some important person they needed information
|about.
|u/Solondthewookiee - 1 month
|
|Not only that, his fellow spies were Ian Fleming (James Bond
|author) and Christopher Lee (Saruman, among others), and they
|worked out of Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes fictionally
|lived. It would be a pretty badass movie.
|u/Funmachine - 1 month
|
|They made a movie about The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,
|it came out this year, and Ian Fleming features in it. However
|Christopher Lee and Fleming were desk based officers.
|u/Orange-V-Apple - 1 month
|
|> after seducing the wife of some important person  Bruh how?
|I’ve seen pictures of him 
|u/throwtrollbait - 1 month
|
|As a balding middle-aged man in an ill-fitting suit? How about
|when he was a 6'6" fighter pilot.
|u/DJDaddyD - 1 month
|
|Not my cuppa tea, but I can def see it for others
|u/nativeislanderr - 1 month
|
|https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/derby-
|news/gallery/fascinating-photos-roald-dahls-early-4215268
|https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-
|site/gallery/2012/sep/13/gallery-roald-dahl He was definitely
|attractive in his youth
|u/UGLY-FLOWERS - 1 month
|
|his Willy was Wonka'd
|u/Oso_De_Negocios - 1 month
|
|My guy
|u/AuspiciousApple - 1 month
|
|Very enterprising of him: The more children are alive in good brain
|health, the larger the target market for his books.
|u/Panikos0 - 1 month
|
|The co-inventors agreed never to accept any profit from the invention.
|u/meshan - 1 month
|
|Rhold Dhal is a treasure. So says my 6 year old
|u/petit_cochon - 1 month
|
|I love his books so much. I hope my son enjoys them as much as I
|did.
|u/autogyrophilia - 1 month
|
|Look. This is a good thing. But ... >Dahl reviewed Australian
|author Tony Clifton's God Cried, a picture book about the siege of
|West Beirut by the Israeli army during the 1982 Lebanon War.[197]
|The article appeared in the August 1983 issue of the Literary Review
|and was the subject of much media comment and criticism at the
|time.[198][199][200] According to Dahl, until this point in time "a
|race of people", meaning Jews, had never "switched so rapidly from
|victims to barbarous murderers." The empathy of all after the
|Holocaust had turned "into hatred and revulsion."[199] Dahl wrote
|that Clifton's book would make readers "violently anti-Israeli",
|saying "I am not anti-Semitic. I am anti-Israel."[201] He asked,
|"must Israel, like Germany, be brought to her knees before she
|learns how to behave in this world?"[202] The United States, he
|said, was "so utterly dominated by the great Jewish financial
|institutions" that "they dare not defy" Israelis.[199] >Following
|the Literary Review article, Dahl told a journalist from the New
|Statesman: "There's a trait in the Jewish character that does
|provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards
|non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up
|anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no
|reason. It's a bit sad because he claims to have turned antisemitic
|after the fucking israelis invaded Lebanon.
|u/MiloRoast - 1 month
|
|He literally says in your own posted quote that he's anti-Israel,
|not antisemitic.
|u/isaac_bh - 1 month
|
|"There's a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke
|animosity,..." Classic antisemitism.
|u/MrDNL - 1 month
|
|He later said he was an antisemite: >They killed 22,000
|civilians when they bombed Beirut. It was very much hushed up in
|the newspapers because they are primarily Jewish-owned. I'm
|certainly anti-Israeli and I've become antisemitic in as much as
|that you get a Jewish person in another country like England
|strongly supporting Zionism. I think they should see both sides.
|It's the same old thing: we all know about Jews and the rest of
|it. There aren't any non-Jewish publishers anywhere, they
|control the media—jolly clever thing to do—that's why the
|president of the United States has to sell all this stuff to
|Israel. But if you don't accept his own words above as evidence
|of that, [his family apologized for
|it](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/06/roald-dahl-
|family-apologises-for-his-antisemitism) as did [the Roald Dahl
|museum](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/19/roald-
|dahl-museum-acknowledges-authors-antisemitism).
|u/autogyrophilia - 1 month
|
|I'm also an antizionist. I do however not claim that "The
|holocaust happened for reason". And I kind of get where he is
|coming from, if you associate completely zionism with being
|Jewish you are going to think a lot of ugly things about Jews.
|But that's not the truth.
|u/yourdiabeticwalrus - 1 month
|
|didn’t know Dahl was so incredibly based
|u/IamREBELoe - 1 month
|
|This sounds like a drunken Irish insult. "Ya bloody cerebral shunt"
|u/baiel3-Brown - 1 month
|
|Probably the most literary medical insult ever coined
|u/Fun_Intention9846 - 1 month
|
|That’s a niche group.
|u/RedundantSwine - 1 month
|
|He also helped found what became the UK's national stroke charity, after
|his wife experienced a stroke. Some of the nonsense words he used in
|his text are based on words she said due to aphasia post-stroke.
|u/InstantaneousPoint - 1 month
|
|He lost his daughter to measles before a vaccine was available. His
|[letter urging parents to have their children
|vaccinated](https://fs.blog/roald-dahl-letter-daughter) is one of the
|most touching things I’ve read.
|u/brickyardjimmy - 1 month
|
|Just to be factual--he *co-*invented it with someone else. But, still,
|an amazing thing.
|u/Mrslinkydragon - 1 month
|
|He developed it with the help of a toy maker!
|u/JJKingwolf - 1 month
|
|He was also a fighter ace in the second world war, and worked as a
|spy/covert intelligence operative afterwards.  During this posting he
|became closely acquainted with a young Ian Fleming, and may have helped
|to inspire the character of James Bond (as Dahl was also a notoriously
|charismatic womanizer).
|u/KingDarius89 - 1 month
|
|Iirc one of Fleming's inspiration was his cousin, Christopher Lee.
|u/Odd-Guarantee-6152 - 1 month
|
|Terrible racist, though, unfortunately.
|u/slothtrop6 - 1 month
|
|If you go far back enough in time, throw a stone in any direction
|and you'll hit one. My favorite enlightenment-era author is
|Voltaire, but sure enough he hated Jews.
|u/JasmineTeaInk - 1 month
|
|I'm a huge fan of the stories written by HP Lovecraft, the
|complete and total bastard.
|u/Odd-Guarantee-6152 - 1 month
|
|You don’t even have to go back in time, actually- there are plenty
|of racists alive today! But we shouldn’t ignore or overlook
|racism just because it’s ubiquitous, right?
|u/slothtrop6 - 1 month
|
|Giving it context is not ignoring it.
|u/dangerbird2 - 1 month
|
|He was a massive racist and a bit of an all-around dick. that being
|said, he was also a fighter ace who killed dozens of nazis, a spy
|who "nudged" America into ending its isolationism in WWII, and a
|great author to boot
|u/YNot1989 - 1 month
|
|And so antisemitic that his publishers had to beg him to reign it in
|when he was writing the Witches.
|u/petit_cochon - 1 month
|
|Yeah, unpleasant, that part. I think a lot of it was because he was
|such a strong British imperialist, raised in British systems for the
|upper echelons. His biographies are really interesting stuff.
|u/bros402 - 1 month
|
|Being anti-Israel isn't racism. It's just being sane.
|u/Odd-Guarantee-6152 - 1 month
|
|So you’re pro-anti-semitism?
|u/bros402 - 1 month
|
|Anti-Israel and anti-Semitism are not the same thing at all.
|u/Odd-Guarantee-6152 - 1 month
|
|Yeah, and Dahl was openly anti-Semitic, which is what we’re
|talking about…
|u/bestjays - 1 month
|
|He had a daughter that died from measles too 😢
|u/txby432 - 1 month
|
|He was also a British spy sent the US to get them involved in WW2. I
|this is news to you, you have read The Irregulars by Jennet Conant
|u/Gullflyinghigh - 1 month
|
|He was also a fighter pilot and an intelligence officer in WW2.
|u/Veetupeetu - 1 month
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|And quite likely an ace as well.
|u/Ratchel1916 - 1 month
|
|Paul Winchell who voiced the racist cat in the Aristocats also invented
|the artificial heart and was a ventriloquist
|u/dethb0y - 1 month
|
|I hear "shunt" all i can think of is Society (1989)
|u/axeman6969 - 1 month
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|Every time.
|u/Izabela2021 - 1 month
|
|He was a genius. If he wasn't a writer, I think he would have made a
|great doctor.
|u/gemripas - 1 month
|
|Unless you’re a Jewish patient!
|u/Mrslinkydragon - 1 month
|
|He worked closely with Jewish people though...
|u/gemripas - 1 month
|
|Wow- amazing!
|u/Czeckyoursauce - 1 month
|
|Lets take a moment to remember that in the world of Roald Dahl,
|snozzberey means penis.
|u/-SaC - 1 month
|
|"The penis tastes exactly like penis!"
|u/-SaC - 1 month
|
|I imagine Willy Wonka's willy is wonky.
|u/-SaC - 1 month
|
|Truly, a question for the ages.
|u/Idiot_Savant_Tinker - 1 month
|
|I know someone who had one of these as an adult. She was born premature
|and some tubes that would normally drain fluid from her head weren't
|developed, so she had this thing.
|u/Oso_De_Negocios - 1 month
|
|I don’t think anyone ever lived a more interesting life… he was a
|fighter **ace** during WWII.
|u/fezes-are-cool - 1 month
|
|I heard cerebral shunt and immediately thought of lobotomy, I’m so
|grateful that it’s actually something good.
|u/Rich_Suspect_4910 - 1 month
|
|Dahl was a genius
|u/hotelrwandasykes - 1 month
|
|Also a secret agent who was partial inspiration for James Bond. Also a
|cruel and antisemitic person according to many. Fascinating guy all
|around.
|u/Mrslinkydragon - 1 month
|
|Amelia Foster, director of the Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden,
|says: "This is again an example of how Dahl refused to take anything
|seriously, even himself. He was very angry at the Israelis. He had a
|childish reaction to what was going on in Israel. Dahl wanted to
|provoke, as he always provoked at dinner. His publisher was a Jew, his
|agent was a Jew... and he thought nothing but good things of them. He
|asked me to be his managing director, and I'm Jewish." From his wiki
|page. I watched the vsauce essay on him. His views could have been
|attributed on the skull fracture he sustained after crash landing.
|Brain injuries can cause personality changes. Yeah he may not have
|been a good person in some aspects, however he has saved many lives
|with the shunt and his stroke rehabilitation methods!
|u/NyQuil_Donut - 1 month
|
|When he died they found him slumped over his typewriter.
|u/MikemkPK - 1 month
|
|Nice to hear a story about a beloved children's content creator not
|being a massive waste of flesh!
|u/adamcoe - 1 month
|
|The episode of Drunk History about RD is fantastic and everyone should
|watch it
|u/knowledgeable_diablo - 1 month
|
|Yep, and my family member was one of the first to get one.
|u/Brendanthebomber - 1 month
|
|I have that in my head rn
|u/Halvus_I - 1 month
|
|The guy who discovered most ulcers were cause by a bacteria (H.Pylori)
|had to infect himself to prove it.
|u/Strong-Ambassador-72 - 1 month
|
|not really him though 🤨
|u/anonyfool - 16 days
|
|His autobiographical books, Boy and Going Solo, audiobooks read by Dan
|Stevens are riveting.
|u/bestjays - 1 month
|
|Another reason he's awesome!
|u/Odd-Guarantee-6152 - 1 month
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|You know he thought Hitler had a point, though, right?
|u/bestjays - 1 month
|
|All I could find was that he was anti Israel, ya know, bc of all the
|civilians they have killed since they became a thing...but show me
|where he said that I would like to see it.
|u/Odd-Guarantee-6152 - 1 month
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|“I am certainly anti-Israel, and I have become anti-Semitic.”
|“Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no
|reason.” Those are just a couple of quotes from him. I’m
|surprised you had a hard time finding evidence since his
|antisemitism is pretty well known. His family has apologized for
|his statements, the Royal Mint refused to make a memorial coin for
|him because he is “associated with anti-Semitism and not regarded
|as an author of the highest reputation,” etc. No one out there is
|denying that he was a racist.
|u/Groundbreaking_War52 - 1 month
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|By that same token he still fought bravely against the Nazis as
|a RAF pilot during World War 2. Taking one of the most dangerous
|assignments imaginable. People are complicated - on the
|balance, I think his good deeds outweighed his nasty words.
|u/liebz11692 - 1 month
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|He wasn’t fighting on behalf of the Jews.
|u/Odd-Guarantee-6152 - 1 month
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|Just like those “very fine people” at the neo nazi rally?
|u/kavardidnothingwrong - 1 month
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|[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-
|people/](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-
|people/) Even Snopes says you're wrong.
|u/Groundbreaking_War52 - 1 month
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|How many of them were decorated WW2 vets, accomplished
|children’s authors, and medical research fundraisers?
|u/Odd-Guarantee-6152 - 1 month
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|Would you consider them to be a very fine person if they
|did?
|u/Groundbreaking_War52 - 1 month
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|I have no clue what your angle is. You believe humans
|are exclusively good or bad? The world isn't that
|simple. Roald Dahl, like most historical figures, has a
|complex legacy and reputation.
|u/Odd-Guarantee-6152 - 1 month
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|Nope, I believe everyone is both. But I don’t agree
|with calling people like him as “awesome” or
|“legends.” That’s my angle.
|u/bestjays - 1 month
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|Ok well jeez... and my bad I wasn't TRYING to look for evidence
|of racism that was not my goal when seeing this post. He still
|wrote amazing books and led an interesting life and was a
|decorated war veteran. Find me any man from that time period
|that would be considered woke and enlightened by today's
|standards.
|u/Mrslinkydragon - 1 month
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|Fritz harber was an avid fan of chemical weapons. His wife committed
|suicide whilst he watched a gass attack on the trenches. However,
|the harber bosche process has saved more people than it's killed.
|u/MrDNL - 1 month
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|I'm a big fan of his work and this is a great invention, but he was an
|antisemitic shitbag. Here are two quotes: >They killed 22,000 civilians
|when they bombed Beirut. It was very much hushed up in the newspapers
|because they are primarily Jewish-owned. I'm certainly anti-Israeli and
|I've become antisemitic in as much as that you get a Jewish person in
|another country like England strongly supporting Zionism. I think they
|should see both sides. It's the same old thing: we all know about Jews
|and the rest of it. There aren't any non-Jewish publishers anywhere,
|they control the media—jolly clever thing to do—that's why the president
|of the United States has to sell all this stuff to Israel. and
|>There's a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity,
|maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there
|is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker
|like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.
|u/dazed_and_bamboozled - 1 month
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|So that cancels out the racism, in a way? /s
|u/-SaC - 1 month
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|It's all nuanced, with many things true at the same time. As Lewis
|Carroll shows us, you can be a good writer with your stories beloved
|by millions, but still be a massive nonce who would likely have had a
|fair few scandals if he were around today.
|u/AltairsBlade - 1 month
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|To be fair when the NAACP and others argued he did eventually realize
|they were right and changed the book.
|u/-SaC - 1 month
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|His views stretched a fair bit beyond making the Oompa Loompas
|African pygmies.
|u/AltairsBlade - 1 month
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|Yeah I was talking specifically about the oopa-loompa bit, there
|is no explanation for his apparent anti-semitisim or misogyny.
|u/coletud - 1 month
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|He was a British dude born in 1916 I think that’s the
|explanation lmao
|u/krunkpanda - 1 month
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|He also ironically hated kids.
|u/smallcoder - 1 month
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|Hmmm... well mitigates it a bit at least
|u/krunkpanda - 1 month
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|Ironic because he said once that he hated kids.
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