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Originally Posted by Hitch
Yeah, to some extent, or how...difficult you want to be about your reading material. I won't put some book down from the 1920's, let's say, because it's racist or sexist or homophobic. If you can't take people and events from the past as they really were, you're trying to rewrite history--and that never ends well.
Hitch
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Choosing not to read such attitudes doesn't mean trying to rewrite history. It simply means that one is making a choice about how one spends one's limited recreational reading time. It's easily possible to acknowledge that that is how people were while also deciding "I'd rather use my spare time reading something else, something I will enjoy reading."