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Roald Dahl

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The family of late author Roald Dahl, who wrote such children's classics as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Matilda," issued an apology for his "incomprehensible" anti-Semitic comments.

"The Dahl family and the Roald Dahl Story Company deeply apologise for the lasting and understandable hurt caused by some of Roald Dahl's statements," the letter posted on his official site said.

It goes on: "Those prejudiced remarks are incomprehensible to us and stand in marked contrast to the man we knew and to the values at the heart of Roald Dahl's stories, which have positively impacted young people for generations. We hope that, just as he did at his best, at his absolute worst, Roald Dahl can help remind us of the lasting impact of words."
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What a beautiful and powerful apology! My girls loved his stories and so did I.
 
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What antisemitic comments did he make, and were they in recent times or did someone dig up something he said back in 1958 or something?
 
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tango said:
and were they in recent times
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The man died 30 years ago, so I guess the comments were not made in recent times.
 
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Lucian Hodoboc said:
The man died 30 years ago, so I guess the comments were not made in recent times.
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Ah, so it's just another example of something said decades ago that upsets people today..... figures.
 
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Apparently, in about 1982/1983, he did make comments at the time of the 1982 Lebanon War. Found this information on Wikipedia. It seems as tango said, "just another example so something said decades ago that upsets people today." People really need to study and learn history so they understand what was going on around the time people wrote or said things that sound horrible today.
 
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