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PC in re Milligan = @#$%^&*^$%#$#@!!!! -) abend

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racism | inherent | in Milligna's work.

I felt as I read it that it was more of an opportunity for the biographer to demonstrate hw PC he was.

IMO he was working through his recognition of his own distance from his upbringing, brought about by the war. The Goumiers and the several Indian divisions, for example, and the Maoris.

and, I always found the jokes with this content as funny and as light herated an acknowledgement of the pain of all (mis)classifications.

I just don't think of Milligan as a RACIST but a man who knew, as a comic GENIUS that race was reliably funny and shocking (because silly), esp. on recogmition of one's self.

NOT a nice man, really, but a loving one, nonetheless.

Warmest,



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