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Originally Posted by HarryT
But this is, of course, Agatha Christie deliberately portraying a character who has anti-Semitic attitudes. Is it "wrong" for an author to have characters in her books who have prejudices?
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Harry Turtledove does a great job of prtraying prejudice in amny of his Alt Hist series. One series has people using the word "nigger" with alacrity and you feel that it is right that the word is used, because the people saying it would never use "black" or "African American" or even "Negro." Yo also get a really good feel for where prejudice and hatred originate and why people do horrendous things to one another.