A new documentary explores how Astrid Lindgren’s beloved children’s books about the pigtailed free spirit were written in response to the darkest days of the second world war
Yea.
The taboo on racial slurs was never really considered by authors in Scandinavia until later, you still had children’s authors writing about racial tolerance while using what are just straight slurs until the late 90s.
Edit:I should clarify. This is not a defense or an excuse. It is ridiculous and embarrassing.
Just don’t look up what his title originally was
Is this a Lovecraft’s Cat situation?
Yea. The taboo on racial slurs was never really considered by authors in Scandinavia until later, you still had children’s authors writing about racial tolerance while using what are just straight slurs until the late 90s.
Edit:I should clarify. This is not a defense or an excuse. It is ridiculous and embarrassing.
Should have stayed pirate
What’s wrong with calling a guy the Fat White Chief especially when the word cracker hadn’t yet proliferated
His title was originally the [N-word] king of Kunkurudut or however you spell the Island’s name
You didn’t look hard enough
I asked google ai don’t @ me tell them about it