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Originally Posted by HarryT
Why all the questions? Authors can make characters in a book behave in any way they wish. When you ask "is it acceptable?" the natural response is "acceptable to whom?". If an author wants to write a character who's a bigot and it's germane to the plot, I certainly have no problem with that. Do you?
If I had to like every character in a book I'd have a real problem, given that one of my favourite type of book is the murder mystery  . |
Because we had this conversation a while back over a certain author maligned by others and we were on opposite sides on that one.
The objections were about the use of the term "raghead".
Just checking to see if that one book/author was representative or an exception.
Cheers.
