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>Racism against African-Americans appalled Nabokov, who touted Pushkin's multiracial background as an argument against segregation.

What did he mean by this?

>> No.13180218

he was a libtard hack writer.

>> No.13180242

>>13180204
Pushkin was 88% white tho so...

>> No.13180248

>>13180204
That Pushkin had black blood and was a highly cultured writer, therefore miscegenation isn't degrading to man's worth or civilised nature.

>> No.13180260

easy to be tolerant of blacks when there's like four of them in the entire country

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>>13180242
88%?

>> No.13180281

He had family members killed for political reasons so he probably seen it in other places.

>> No.13180290

>>13180260
America? What

>> No.13180297

>>13180290
Russia

>> No.13180333

>>13180204
Isn’t it pretty fucking clear?

>> No.13180337

>>13180297
Got news for you

>> No.13180350 [DELETED] 

>>13180204
Sympathy towards negroes is a very 20th centurt sentiment. He wouldn't be saying the same thing had he lived in this day and age.

>> No.13180354 [DELETED] 

>>13180270
That's a Nigerian writer.

>> No.13180366 [DELETED] 

Nabokov was a degerate so it's no wonder. Let's take a look:
>married a jewess
>books about pedophilia
>books about incest
>repudiates books by Christian writers
>loved blacks
>accepted race-mixing

>> No.13180369 [DELETED] 

>>13180366
degenerate*

>> No.13180370

>>13180350
Roflmao

>> No.13180548

>>13180366
>married a jewess
That's all I need to know

>> No.13180783

>>13180366
now list the bad stuff

>> No.13180824

>>13180260
Nabokov was American retard

>> No.13180833

>>13180242
It cannot be reversed no matter how much you try to dilute it back.

>> No.13180847

Whilst there's a Nabokov thread up, is Laughter in the Dark worth a read?

>> No.13180849

>>13180366
>/pol/ack
>low IQ

Name a more iconic duo

>> No.13180850 [DELETED] 

>>13180824
Russian who lived in America as an adult.

>> No.13180867 [DELETED] 

>>13180783
I just did, funny guy.

>> No.13180879 [DELETED] 

>>13180849
Jews and degeneracy.
Niggers and being shit at everything.
List goes on.

>> No.13180895

>>13180879
t. double-digit IQ /pol/tard

>> No.13180910

>>13180847
It's a funny-tragic noir, much quicker to read than say Ada. I liked it.

>> No.13180914 [DELETED] 

>>13180895
>muh IQ
How's 8th grade going, lad?

>> No.13180927

>>13180914
Isn’t IQ you guys’ whole shtick?

>> No.13180942 [DELETED] 

>>13180927
I'm not from /pol/. Not everyone who hates niggers is from there. Why do you love niggers?

>> No.13180957

>>13180942
Maybe you should go back there :)

>> No.13180971

>>13180910
Nice, was hoping for something a little lighter than his other works - cheers

>> No.13180980

>>13180204
one extremely rare, noble and smart nigger, like one in a million fucks a Russian 8 generations up from Pushkin's bloodline =/= Pushkin is nigger

>> No.13180985 [DELETED] 

>>13180957
Nope. I don't like it. I just like literature.

>> No.13182189

>>13180204
Racism is pretty cringe Tbh, especially being biased against Sub-Saharans which are essentially the most docile and harmless group of people the world has ever known.

>> No.13182931
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>>13180270
Hey, its the N from my history text book. Who was he and how did he make Europe?

>> No.13182945

>>13182931
Either that king who fought a war to keep the slave trade going or beethoven or something.

>> No.13182991

>>13180204
Different times produce different perspectives. Mindblowing.
I guarantee if he was alive to day, a professor at Cornell, and had to suffer the incessant thunder of blithering hip hop across campus, he’d have a rather different view. And that’s trivial compared to things like the crime rate and the constant entitled whinging.
Seeing softspoken 60s Marcus Brown wearing tortoiseshell spectacles and a pastel corduroy suit has a rather more pleasant effect, much more conducive to tolerance.

>> No.13183014

>>13180847
It's trash. Don't read it. The terrible writing may make you laugh.

>> No.13183024

>>13180337
He lived in white areas his whole life, even when he died, in Switzerland.
if he'd live in a ghetto he'd be goose stepping just after a month.

>> No.13183039

>>13182991
>yes black people were okay back then but what about [insert specific demographic I don't like and an irrelevant jab at a genre of music I don't like here]?

>> No.13183048

>>13183039
>and an irrelevant jab at a genre of music I don't like here]?
You only think it’s irrelevant because you’re not half as knowledgeable as you fancy. Nabokov disdained music and despised hearing it on campus. Now imagine if it were pounding thuggish gibberish and how it might affect his view of blacks.

>> No.13183058

>>13183048
>Nabokov hated music
wtf I hate Nabokov now???

>> No.13183064

>>13183058
Less hate, more disdain. He did hate jazz though, which is... more to the point of the thread lol

>> No.13183081

>>13183064
depending on when he said he hated jazz, it wouldn't be relevant to the thread, since it could have been back when people saw it as poor people music

>> No.13183087

>>13183081
I meant more to the point *of the point* I was making in the thread, which was that rap alone would’ve turned him against blacks, given how volatile he was with music

>> No.13183099

>>13183087
in that case, he would only be turned against blacks if the first songs he heard were all jazz rap or contemporary r&b. I agree he probably wouldn't have liked rap, but that's because it's completely different from the musical landscape of his time, not because he disliked jazz

>> No.13183131

>>13183099
... I have no idea what you’re talking about, I didn’t say he’d dislike rap because he dislikes jazz. It’s selfevident why he would dislike rap, because it’s retarded, soulless, and obnoxious, and he’s a feeling artist of genius. Has nothing to do with him being from a different time either, if he were born thirteen years ago he wouldn’t like it, because he would still be a feeling artist of genius and not a brainlet who thinks shit that slaps in the whip is worthwhile to the ear.

>> No.13183153

>>13183131
>because it’s retarded, soulless, and obnoxious
sounds like someone has defined their taste of music exclusively by listening to the radio. also,
>I think X thing isn't smart, and I think Y person is smart, so therefore Y person would not like X thing

>> No.13183166

>>13183153
Fuck you’re stupid dude. Look at this lmao
>>I think X thing isn't smart, and I think Y person is smart, so therefore Y person would not like X thing
Wow you must’ve felt like a proper fucking logician typing that one out you pathetic dweeb, how about the guy that lamented his inability to suffer Mozart would be fairly unlikely to appreciate Young fucking Thug you stupid bitch.

>> No.13183203

>>13183166
>Mozart
bad example. I'm a classical elitist myself, but I would rather listen to an hour of Young Thug than two minutes of Mozart

>> No.13183216

>>13183203
Jesus fucking christ anon. Stop trolling. You are annoying everyone.

>> No.13183224
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>>13183216
all ten of those words, each and every one of them, is distilled bait

>> No.13183235

>>13182931
Olaudah Equiano, he was freed and wrote about his experiences

>> No.13183237

>>13183224
Rap is too loud. Nabokov would obviously not like it. He is too aristocratic and elitist. Rap is barbaric and inane.

>> No.13183241

>>13182931
>>13183235
But he didn't do shit to make America let alone Europe

>> No.13183243

>>13183237
>Rap is barbaric and inane.
again, bait, but I'll bite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMoGGb9OBAs

>> No.13183252

>>13183243
This isn't very good anon.

>> No.13183261

>>13183243
Why would you not just put Madvillain if you wanted to do abstract hip hop? They're garbage too, but better I suppose

>> No.13183263

>>13183252
but it isn't barbaric and inane, is it? cloud rap, which is a very large part of modern non-radio rap, is all like this, very laid back and nonagressive. admit it, you've only heard trap and gangsta rap

>> No.13183277

>>13183243
>Inevitable post of a retarded negro “intellectual” pontificating over a subdued but still totally fire beat
Next you’ll post Hopsin.
Rap is retarded music for retards. If you feel targeted by this statement it’s because you’re retarded.

>> No.13183280

>>13183263
You’re literally resorting to No True Scotsman. We all know what rap is. Pulling the “muh real rap” is nearly an NPC dialogue option.

>> No.13183285

>>13183203
Cool, enjoy being soulless.

>> No.13183287

>>13182189
they committed mass genocide against the khoikhoi, san and pygmy peoples of central and south africa. they are the only people to have created states so debased that 1/4-1/3 of the population were slaves most of them sold into the most inhuman conditions in the middle east or south america; they have an unbelievably high murder rate and universally treat animals, children and women with utter contempt and vicious simple minded animalistic abuse. The most docile people are ironically groups like the khoikhoi and other isolated hunter gatherers

>> No.13183303

>>13183277
>Next you'll post Hopsin
no I won't, since I have taste
>Rap is retarded music for retards. If you feel targeted by this statement it’s because you’re retarded.
I don't feel targeted because I'm not retarded so obviously your post doesn't apply to me
>>13183280
never said that radio rap isn't real rap, reread my posts
>>13183285
why are you talking to yourself?

>> No.13183308

>>13183287
Fucking based.

>> No.13183323

>>13183287
that's because colonialism white washed them and gave them the angry, homicidal, racist white genes

>> No.13183333

>>13180833
black people do not have over 85% white blood anon...

>> No.13183336

>>13183333
Based and redpilled quads

>> No.13183340

>>13183323
hahahahahahahaha. Anon is so out of his league here.

>> No.13183346

>>13183323
Now refute this anon

https://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/15/colonialism-did-not-make-africa-poor/

https://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/07/29/south-african-apartheid-a-case-study-in-the-effect-of-european-colonialism-in-africa/

https://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/15/the-wealth-of-colonizers-or-lack-thereof/

https://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/07/24/mythologies-about-leopolds-congo-free-state/

>> No.13183397

>>13183346
>The Alternative Hypothesis
already refuted yourself :)

>> No.13183410

>>13183346
Already refuted, prove me wrong

>> No.13183455
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>>13182931
Hmm I wonder why they put an insignificant black man, instead of actual Europeans on a textbook titled "Making Europe". I wonder what agenda they are trying to push? Maybe they want me to believe Black people built Europe while evil whity did nothing but oppress blacks and destroy wakanda? This is what they tell me about America, so maybe that is what they want me to believe about Europe. I wonder who is behind this agenda? I guess this good goy better not look any further!

>> No.13183465

>>13183455
black men built europe by cucking neanderthals and making cumskinned cuckbabies we now identify as 'europoors'

>> No.13183497

>>13180824
You mean he lived in America...

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>>13183497
Nabokov on being asked if he felt American:
“Yes, I do. I am as American as April in Arizona. The flora, the fauna, the air of the western states, are my links with Asiatic and Arctic Russia. Of course, I owe too much to the Russian language and landscape to be emotionally involved in, say, American regional literature, or Indian dances, or pumpkin pie on a spiritual plane; but I do feel a suffusion of warm, lighthearted pride when I show my green USA passport at European frontiers. Crude criticism of American affairs offends and distresses me. In home politics I am strongly antisegregationist. In foreign policy, I am definitely on the government’s side. And when in doubt, I always follow the simple method of choosing that line of conduct which may be the most displeasing to the Reds and the Russells”

>> No.13184305

>>13183520
>In home politics I am strongly antisegregationist. In foreign policy, I am definitely on the government’s side
so he was the ideal libtard.

>> No.13184356

>Imagen defending niggers on an anonymous basket weaving forum

>> No.13184389

>>13180204
Reminder Nabokov was uncomfortable with homos because of his homosexual brother.

>> No.13184648

>>13180204
>who touted Pushkin's multiracial background
1/8 African, 7/8 Russian? Pushkin wrote about "Peter the Great's Arab", because Russians didn't know the difference between Turks, Arabs and Niggers.
As if it somehow erased 7/8 Russian ancestry of his, anyway.

>> No.13184807

>>13180204

I don't know, but why don't you go read his books instead of posting here? I think this would be greatly beneficial to you

>> No.13184841

Wasn't Pushkin's blackness and his black grandfather falsely attributed anyway?

>> No.13186030

>>13184841
No, literary nobody denies that Pushkin was partially African

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Man, I thought I'd like Lolita and I did at the beginning for all the French phrases and descriptions. Now I'm at 2/3 and his masturbatory style becomes more unbearable with every page, this guy seems like pretentiousness personified.
>Look only I know this feeling and those places because I grew up in a rich family!!!
>And of course you won't mind that I will describe for the 10th time why Dolly will go to shit the second she turns 14!!!!
I hope something happens soon.

>> No.13186714

>>13182931
This is embarassingly transparent... would have to bring it up class

>> No.13186725
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Why is it so hard for people to understand that just because progressive universalism is retarded, that doesn’t make racism good or true?