{"id":3371,"date":"2023-03-24T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=3371"},"modified":"2023-03-23T16:30:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T20:30:49","slug":"famous-childrens-author-british-antisemite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2023\/03\/famous-childrens-author-british-antisemite\/","title":{"rendered":"famous \u2227 children\u2019s author \u2227 British \u21d2\u00a0antisemite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/adams-notebook\/carrolls-symbolic-logic-1896-b-jews-9f1224047e4f\">Lewis Carroll\u2019s <em>Symbolic Logic<\/em> (1896)<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/LewsCarol-No_Jews_are_honest-1024x383.png\" alt=\"A picture of the \u201cexamples\u201d (presumably of syllogisms) on page 109 of Lewis Carroll\u2019s \u201cSymbolic Logic\u201d (1896). The examples read as follows:\n\n#19 A prudent man shuns hyaenas;\nNo banker is imprudent.\n\tNo banker fails to shun hyaenas.\n\n#20 All wasps are unfriendly;\nNo puppies are unfriendly.\n\tPuppies are not wasps.\n\n#21 No Jews are honest;\nSome Gentiles are rich.\n\tSome rich people are dishonest.\" class=\"wp-image-3372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/LewsCarol-No_Jews_are_honest-1024x383.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/LewsCarol-No_Jews_are_honest-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/LewsCarol-No_Jews_are_honest-768x287.png 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/LewsCarol-No_Jews_are_honest-1200x449.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/LewsCarol-No_Jews_are_honest.png 1213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>POSIT: <strong><em>IF<\/em><\/strong> you are a famous children\u2019s author <strong><em>AND<\/em><\/strong> you are British <strong><em>THEN<\/em><\/strong> you are an antisemite. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">(<em>cf.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/12\/06\/943698406\/roald-dahl-family-apologizes-for-childrens-authors-anti-semitism\">Roald Dahl<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarciaBelsky\/status\/1064234605698519041\">J.K. Rowling<\/a>, this asshat, probably Rudyard Kipling, etc.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an aside, the fact that Carroll (who came from a family of high-church Anglicans and took holy orders) wrote #21 tends to give credence to #20: <em>All <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestants\"><em>W.A.S.P<\/em><\/a><em>s <\/em><strong><em>are<\/em><\/strong><em> unfriendly.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Lewis Carroll\u2019s Symbolic Logic (1896): POSIT: IF you are a famous children\u2019s author AND you are British THEN you are an antisemite. (cf. Roald Dahl, J.K. Rowling, this asshat, probably Rudyard Kipling, etc.) As an aside, the fact that Carroll (who came from a family of high-church Anglicans and took holy orders) wrote #21 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2023\/03\/famous-childrens-author-british-antisemite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;famous \u2227 children\u2019s author \u2227 British \u21d2\u00a0antisemite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[11],"tags":[857,889,858,890,856,572,891],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/110079429279900635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3371"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}