Do we really need to know the history of and justifications for someone’s beliefs or actions to understand that those beliefs and actions are objectively bad?
There’s an implicit assumption among book lovers that the love of a story is pure and unsullied, that it stands apart from the material mandates of history.
It’s so important that we not only make sure to represent victims of color well, but also cease to promote or accept tone policing, respectability politics, and straight, white people serving up opinions that go unchecked.
