Why do academics and progressives hate this faggot so much?

>>9719248
They don't.

>>9719248
My question is why does anyone like him at all? Btw he was a progressive and liberal.

>>9720048
and?

>>9719248
He was a progressive, you alt-right retard.
>>>/pol/

He hates Jane Austen but she's a much better writer than him. Why should I take him seriously? Melville and Hawthorne were better than him and wrote earlier, Twain is just a pleb magnet.

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>>9720048
>Btw he was a progressive and liberal.

>>9720051
>He was a progressive, you alt-right retard.

>>9720074
No he really was. His books were anti racist even though he uses the nigger word throughout

>>9720052
Melville no doubt, but Hawthorne is trash.

>>9720193
Hawthorne is fucking awesome. I bet your entire exposure to him was reading The Scarlet Letter in high school when you were too young to appreciate it.

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>>9720052
>this entire post
>I share a board with this wretched pleb