Cancel culture 1950 >Pound's antisemitism can be traced to at least 1910, when he wrote in Patria Mia, his essays for the New Age: "The Jew alone can retain his detestable qualities, despite climatic conditions." The sentence was removed from the 1950 edition. Shit lord 1939 >in 1939, when he read his poetry at Harvard, he was said to have included antisemitic poems in the program because he believed there were Jews in the audience. Red pill >Pound came to believe that World War I had been caused by finance capitalism, which he called "usury",[3] and that the Jews had been to blame. >he wrote that "Roosevelt represents Jewry" and signed off with "Heil Hitler".[283] He began calling Roosevelt "Jewsfeldt" or "Stinky Rooosenstein" Hair splitting >I am not anti-Semitic, and I distinguish between the Jewish usurer and the Jew who does an honest day's work for a living. Neutralized >He was arraigned on 27 November on charges of treason, and on 4 December he was placed in a locked room in the psychiatric ward of Gallinger Hospital.