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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I'm finding it harder to separate the author from their works as time goes on.
I don't see that I should spend money on someone I'd despise when there are so many alternatives.
Of course, the fact that there seem to be so many people who do and say things that I have never even dreamed of doing or saying is sad and, to me, surprising.
But then, I'm a white, cis, straight, middle class, well-off married man. I essentially never have people behaving badly towards me.
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True. As some have said, cultural and societal views we disagree with can be understood to a point if they lived decades ago with ignorance, but when it comes to certain things like absolute cruelty, child abuse, etc., that's a different story.
I have heard that about Lovecraft with racism, and I know many mention John Wayne lately with his views. I read Agatha Christie's biography and the views they had during the Victorian times are certainly what we'd view as racism in today's time, but they did not in her time. She's always going to be one of my favorite authors, I get she was born in a completely different time period.