#WritersCoffeeClub 24: When older novels use outdated or racist language, should they be edited for the modern world or left alone and viewed in context?
They should be left, with a warning added at the front so readers can be aware.
Before we start trying to sanitise the past to make it fit our modern sensibilities, maybe we should be doing something about the people who use racial, antisemitic and homophobic slurs now, most of whom will never have read the books people keep trying to edit.
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