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That's an oddly transphobic/intersexphobic way to express a criticism of semicolons...
Yeah it looks like the dude had some issues to say the least...
That's not his views... that's from an essay where he's parodying the mainstream ultrasimplification of political alignment.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/cold-turkey
You left out some language that I think clears up his ironic tone:
Totally changes it, doesn't it?
Oh, interesting. To be fair, Wikipedia left it out (not me), I was actually trying to check if the dude was a bigot or just 200iq ironic.
Still not convinced it's the latter though.
I've read 12 of Vonnegut's books. He is fundamentally a social progressive, but there are also some moments in some 70s novels (particularly Breakfast of Champions) that I find homophobic. He also has a habit of making women either passive pleasers or full nutso.
But he also explicitly and repeatedly pushes kindness, egalitarian social justice, and willingness to change.
I highly highly recommend every human read Mother Night.
To me it felt like they implied going to college is a bad thing. I didn't expect them to have a shred of metacognition after that.
He was born in 1922, so that's not really surprising. Almost no one born that long ago wouldn't have those bigotries.
I'm not trying excusing it. I'm just not surprised.