Thread: Sexism/racism etc in older fiction
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Old 02-03-2018, 09:45 PM   #91
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
Never look into The Turner Diaries. Books can be anything their authors want them to be.

In judging a book, I try to be mindful of the times it was written in.
Personally, that is one of the books on the list I tell people everyone should read.

As for the whole being mindful of the times things, I disagree. Racism is racism, sexism is sexism, just because something was more open doesn't change its' nature. If it's wrong now, it was wrong then.

I do think history shouldn't be "whitewashed" as it were. If things happened, they happened. Let them stand.
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