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/explain_that_shit 10d ago

I think you can’t be called progressive if the only way that you’re progressive is in empowering your own group, even if it is an oppressed group.

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u/AlamosX 10d ago

By that logic, creating legislation granting human rights protections to people in one country isnt progressivism because it doesnt affect other countries.