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I believe artistic license only extents so far. Sexism, racism, rape... they are all okay in fiction unless they start to enter to the realm of propaganda. Let me explain with a example.
Moorcock's Pyat Quartet is a gem, for example, but Pyat himself is someone very unpleasant. The books are written from his perspective, and full of racism. But it is clear to the reader that those are Pyat's views and he is a very disturbed person. That is what is important. On contrast, think about The Birth of a Nation. If Griffith directed that movie last year, what would you have said? When racism is presented as an unshakable truth?
Fiction lies, that is its most inherent feature. The problems begins when that lies are presented as truth, propaganda. I don't think there is any trouble about where Lord Foul's Bane or the other 99 books are placed. It is SJWs that have serious troubles unstanding that.
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