[ SECRET POST #3242 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3242 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Babylon 5]


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[Hamilton/Founding Fathers]


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[The Walking Dead]


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[Jack Davenport/Matthew Macfadyen/Colin Firth]


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[Air Master]


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Comments

Re: Boycotting dead writers.

[ibbity]

I think that, if they aren't getting any benefit from you reading their work, then it depends on what KIND of books they wrote.

Type 1: Their badness is inextricably linked to the book and you can't read it without being encouraged by the book to start thinking/acting in the bad way. Yeah, probably don't read that just for kicks and giggles. However, completely forgetting what was said and done in the past that was bad is a good way to let those things start creeping back in, because people won't recognize the warning signs, so it's a good idea to keep track of those ideas and be aware of how they present themselves. This is why it's important to have, say, Mein Kampf still available, because it's valuable to know how people think when they have gone off in a bad way.

Type 2: Author was a terrible person, but their books don't really reflect or promote the bad things they represented, or at least not to a particularly high degree. In this case, I'd probably hinge my decision to boycott or not on who is benefiting from my patronage of said books. Example: Marion Zimmer Bradley was an awful, awful person, but she doesn't get any benefit from you buying new printing of her books now that she's dead, and her books, while containing some questionable material, don't really reflect the terrible person she was---heck I was FLABBERGASTED to learn about her behavior, because her books gave no clue that she fucking acted like her (clearly portrayed as The Bad Guys) villains all the damn time. Reading books by a bad person, now dead, which don't encourage you to be a bad person or depict bad things in a positive light is not helping the bad person nor hurting you.