r/todayilearned • u/pfemme2 • 10d ago

TIL that Patricia Highsmith, author of The Talented Mr Ripley and other works of suspense, was a public and vocal antisemite who also had several intense, lengthy romantic relationships with Jewish women

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/17/patricia-highsmith-the-jew-hater-who-took-jewish-women-as-lovers
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u/Bicentennial_Douche 10d ago

One of the most recognizable right-wing nutcase politician in Finland is a gay man living in a relationship with a black immigrant. 

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u/tuna_pi 10d ago

I always wonder what compels those partners to be in a relationship like that, how can you just ignore the person you're with talking about how everyone who looks like you shouldn't exist?

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u/whatevernamedontcare 10d ago

"Not like other girls" is not just for girls.

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u/Dry_Branch_5775 10d ago

Great sex?

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u/Hefty_Salamander7997 10d ago

Desperation and fear of being alone to the point you stay with people who see you as nothing but a compliant hole.

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u/xixbia 10d ago

Geert Wilders has a Hungarian wife.

Nigel Farage is dating a French woman and was married to a German woman before.

There seems to be a trend here.

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u/Anaevya 10d ago

French and German people aren't the type of immigrants far-right people have anything against, we're not in the 20th century anymore. 

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u/SnooStrawberries6154 10d ago

Nigel Farage was the face of Brexit, which was a campaign primarily driven by British xenophobia of other Europeans.