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Originally Posted by Thasaidon
A Fair point.
It is just that I get very, very tired of, it seems like, every author I liked growing up being labelled as some kind of "...ist". There is often either an element of virtue signalling in these claims and /or an implication that no one should read them because of the claims.[...]
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I do know what you mean, and even agree to a certain extent. It is, after all, too late to punish long-dead authors for their mistakes, so there is no reason to get het up about it. But, aside from instances where such criticism is handled poorly, in general I think it is a very good thing to have problems highlighted. Prejudice can be quite insidious and so it can be very helpful to get other people's perspectives and see where the problems lie.
Also, it can be interesting to try and assess whether a work is better or worse than we might expect for the time, and maybe guess at what that tells us about the author.