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notthatlincoln t1_isr1sa1 wrote

Reply to comment by Biotic_Factor in He's known as Chile's greatest poet, but feminists say Pablo Neruda is canceled by Aboveground_Plush

Unless Chilean culture is precisely what Pablo Neruda represents.

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Biotic_Factor t1_isrlf40 wrote

Could you explain what you mean by this?

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notthatlincoln t1_ist1hcg wrote

The statement is fairly self-explanatory.

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Biotic_Factor t1_istou1j wrote

I was just wondering if you wanted to expand on your point at all :)

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notthatlincoln t1_istueqc wrote

Well, in certain African majority Muslim countries, Somalia, for instance, female genital mutilation and spousal abuse is the norm. Not the exception, the norm. So, discovering that Somalia's most renowned Male poets also happened to be woman-abusing female genital mutilation supporters would not, by definition, be some sort of slander upon the general populace of Somalia, it would simply mean that their most popular poets are also representative of the general populations attitudes towards such things. I don't know what the general attitude of Chilean men during the time of Pablo Neruda's heyday towards rape or spousal abuse was, so I'm not going to make the automatic assumption that it is slanderous towards Chileans somehow to view his attitudes as normal in that regard. I don't know. I wasn't there.

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