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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8499810" data-attributes="member: 59082">I think this is a valid and important distinction, and may help to diffuse some of the defensiveness a fan of REH's might feel unless, of course, you're suggesting that reading Howard today perpetuates the "functions of subordination," etc.But here's a question I have been wondering: For those who are interested in the project of analyzing authors and artists from the past from a certain contemporary lens of what is and is not problematic, where is the line between an author or work being "blacklisted" and when you can still enjoy them, in spite of the problematic content?I imagine the line is different for everyone, but that's kind of my question. Where is the line for you? And if there's a line for that, is there also a line for where you not only don't want to read them, but also would support their work being pulled out of circulation? I ask because we all make this sort of decision all the time: we choose to support things that we might find reprehensible, if only out of our own ignorance, intentional or not. We all give money to companies that do things that we don't like, sometimes terrible things. And is that any different that reading an author, some of whose views we find problematic? (aside from the fact that I don't think I've ever come across an author--or person, really--whose views I 100% agree with).I personally don't have an issue with reading a book or author whose views I don't agree with, or even find reprehensible. For one, it is rare that everything they say is reprehensible or that their work can be entirely reduced to the problematic elements. I'm sure there is stuff out there that would fit that criteria, but I haven't found it - and probably wouldn't enjoy it if I did find it (although, as an aside, when I worked at a big used bookstore back in the 90s, I would come across some pretty wild stuff, but it was rather rare).So where is the line where thou cannot pass? (By "you" I don't only mean pemerton, but anyone reading this). And if there's a line in which it becomes too much that you won't read it or cannot enjoy it, is there another line where you think more public action should be taken?</blockquote>

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