Some say only second to Shakespeare in English literature. Never my cup of tea so I paid no attention to him. My bad.

The Hitler and Stalin Loving Socialist Whose Statue No One Will Touch



Some choice excerpts from the article --

While most still think of Pygmalion or My Fair Lady when they think of Shaw (if they think of him at all), his views on eugenics, socialism, and genocide were never secret. Audrey Hepburn singing, “The Rain in Spain” is a long way from Shaw writing that, “If we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.”

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“The ungovernables, the ferocious, the conscienceless, the idiots, the self-centered myops and morons, what of them? Do not punish them. Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill them,” he raved in one essay.

Aside from conventional biological eugenics, the “ungovernables” were enemies of the state.

"The essential justification for extermination," Shaw argued, "is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else" in a paragraph defending Soviet purges.

YIKES

I have been vaguely aware that Shaw held some repugnant ideas. I usually try to keep art separate from the views of the creator, and so I don't care. Of course, I am not consuming a lot of Shaw's material anyway.

The YIKES have it.

The only work I ever read by him was “Man and Superman” thirty-six years ago in college. It was interesting, but not so much that I ever read anything else by him.

At their core, all leftists are the same- their politics is their religion and all heretics and blasphemers must be eliminated. The end justifies the means. All the same, the world over. It doesn't matter where or when they were born or how they were raised- they are all the same