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Originally Posted by mtravellerh
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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I'd suggest leaving them as they are. People are mature enough (one hopes!) to realise that a book is the product of the culture in which it was written, and that (to name but one example) 19th century attitudes to black people were very different from those which we'd consider acceptable today.