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I like the Lovejoy series by Jonathan Gash, but the way Lovejoy treats women in the first few novels is horrendous. And that's from the late seventies.
But casual racism and sexism in older novels? It depends. If it's the characters behaving as they would have done given the time period, it would be odd to have them behaving any other way. If, for example, the Dorothy L. Sayers was bowdlerized to remove the anti-semitic remarks of the characters in it, it would be a poorer depiction of the time period.
But if the racism/sexism is authorial, I tend not to continue.
But also, as a middle-aged, middle class, white hetrosexual cis man, I may not be as sensitive to such things as others, which may be a failing on my part.
Actually, anachronisms and inconsistency bother me much more.
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