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Originally Posted by sealbeater
I'm not so sure. I'm picking up a certain apologist vibe. Oh, "it's just the product of their times" so it's ok if people were racists. No, it's not ok. Let it stand so people can see what the mentality was like but I can certainly judge regardless of the times. There are certain principles that stand.
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I'm not sure anyone is saying it's okay that people were racist in former times. This thread isn't about approving racism of the past or the present. It's about whether that should stop us from reading a book, or, if we do read it, how should we consider it. The alternatives are to rewrite history or forget history and I don't think either of those are good choices.
Barry