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Old 02-02-2009, 09:48 AM   #1
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Biased books

A problem has risen up for me that seems not to have been discussed before: politically biased books. Not only do some of the authors happily state their political or moral views, but some of them are openly hostile versus females, other nations and other races, some of these views making me embarrassed even to read them. Now I assemble them and upload them so my name is linked with those oeuvres and I am somewhat identified with them.

What can I do? Obviously we live in freecountries, so censorship is out of the question. Should I attach a caution label to those books? Just leave them the way they are and trust the readers to be mature enough to discern the biased views from the entertainment? This really does upset me to a certain point. Help and advise would be highly appreciated.

(Examples: Henty, Ballantyne, Optic, Kingston to name but a few)
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