NP "racist" Tolkien?

[jbor]

on 28/12/02 1:03 PM, Dave Monroe at davidmmonroe at yahoo.com wrote:

>>> But don't stop reading.  Excise all
>>> the racism 
>> 
>> OK. Censorship. So which parts of _TLOTR_, exactly,
>> would you expurgate. Let us know ....
> 
> Willfully misrepresneting me here, as ...
> 
>>> and sexism and classism and homophobia and
>>> xenophobia and ... and ... and, well, I don't know
>>> what would even be left.  Face up to yr legacy.
>>> We should have learned that by now here.
> 
> ... the rest of the passage here shows.  Clearly not
> advocating censorship ...

Sorry, my error. (If a "misrepresentation", certainly not a wilful one: I'm
still not sure what you meant. Particularly by that "Face up to your legacy"
line. Who was that supposed to be addressed to?)

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