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RE: Politically INCORRECT fantasy authors - Is it so bad?
Exactly! These stories are not lessons, I've never felt like these authors wrote their stories in order to brain-wash readers and transform them to racists! Racism exists, it would be unnatural to read stories with no mention of it, or have white-washed sterilized content. Thanks for replying here.
It's something I'm butting up against in Ithaqa. The 1920's were an intensely racist time, but I don't want my characters hating minorities, and I'm not sure how comfortable I am with having even bad guys drop the n word in a story I've written.
There were a lot of forward thinking people in the 1920's so it's not crazy my main characters wouldn't hate African Americans, but I do worry about white washing the less than savory parts of the 1920's.
I don't have an answer yet, but I'm starting to lean more towards realism.