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Originally Posted by stuartjmz
Not sure if I understood your query, but I read murder mysteries to enjoy seeing good triumph. When the "good guys" are spouting bigotry and bile, it does take the gloss off.
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I just find it intriguing that people quite commonly, seemingly, have no difficulty with murderers and violent characters being depicted in a novel, together with their evils and dialogue, but apparently have difficulties with characters who are bigots, racist, classist, anti-semitic, sexist, etc. in the same novel. Perhaps a virtuous fashion of the times?
I have no time for any of those behaviors myself but recognize that such people exist in real life and so do not get upset when characters in novels are created in those frames. Just as I do not get upset if a novel creates murderous or violent characters, but I would wonder about myself if I did not get annoyed at them but got annoyed at the others in novels, especially if I made the distinction all in the one novel..
Was just a comment and getting off topic so I'll leave it at that.