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Originally Posted by hildea
And a question to those of you who don't see a problem with these books: Can you really say, with a straight face, that stories which romanticise nazis, trivialise the horror of slavery in the US, and make light of racism and antisemitism, don't hurt people? Truly?
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The problem is that "romanticize," "trivialize," and "make light of" are highly subjective terms that different people define differently. One person's "describes" is another's "romanticize." One's "could have used more context" is another's "made light of."
To pretend that it can be simply--let alone objectively--agreed upon that certain books definitely romanticize, trivialize, and otherwise make light of, horrendous real-life human behavior is not being particularly honest.