Wells justified anti-Jewish hostility through an aesthetic of planned order

Evidence

It was his love of wide vistas and straight paths which made Wells dislike the Jews: Jews were “firmly on the side of reaction and disorder” (Cheyette, 1988:23) and as such spoiled the landscape and thwarted the efforts of the planner. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 410

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how aesthetic preferences — ‘love of wide vistas and straight paths’ — covertly license ethnic hostility among otherwise progressive thinkers.
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