I just checked Wikipedia:
The first 38 chapters of the book refer to Fagin by his racial and religious origin 257 times, calling him "the Jew", with just 42 uses of "Fagin" or "the old man".
Now, I figured from watching the version they complained about that suddenly creating his Jewishness out of whole cloth would have been even more work than I imagined, but that stat is pretty pointed.
The entry goes on to mention that Dickens later went on to clean up the antisemitism, but it sounds like later chapters, not later versions, as you'd expect from a serial.
Dickens and Fagin were mentioned in reference to RF2009. (Apparently, the character of Fagin caused some Victorian RF action, with your typical number of bingo hits by CD, and then some remorseful Attempts to Do Better.)
(The moral of this story is apparently that the more things change, blah blah blah.)
(Which, when I think about it too hard, is just depressing. Are my great-great grandkids going to be stuck fighting these SAME. FREAKING. BATTLES???)
Which, when I think about it too hard, is just depressing. Are my great-great grandkids going to be stuck fighting these SAME. FREAKING. BATTLES???
Yes. But it'll probably be about something new and different. Like, people who have internet implanted in their heads vs. people who don't for religious reasons. Or whatever.
Yes. But it'll probably be about something new and different. Like, people who have internet implanted in their heads vs. people who don't for religious reasons. Or whatever.
The freaky non-implant people have it coming.
Oh, my god, Charter is Satan. SATAN, I tell you.
some remorseful Attempts to Do Better
Which puts him ahead of some other RF authors, at least up until where I stopped reading.
Though, honestly? Sometimes I feel what's been culturally appropriated from me most is my outrage.
Hey ita, have you seen the NY Times article about goat meat?
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It's pretty funny.
Their unappetizing visage is simultaneously dopey and satanic, like a Disney character with a terrible secret.
Later:
“Is it gay meat?” Confused, I said, “There’s nothing gay about it at all.” She explained, “No, I said is it gamey?”
I think goats are cute. Not satanic! A college friend had house goat. No, really. They started out with a handful her parents used to keep the grounds in good shape, and then one had a kid the mommagoat rejected and her dad brought it inside so it wouldn't die and then couldn't get it OUT of the house (I think he was a big old softie.) Goats have a rep for being destructive, but I think this one thought it was just another cat or dog. If not a person.
