SLSL 'Low-lands': racist, sexist and fascist talk

[Malignd]

<<But, if Nabokov was homophobic, if Eliot was
anti-Semitic, Melville was Anti-Catholic, and their
fictions and poems are infected with these
unacceptable attitudes, it's puts us off and it
should. Such is the case with Low-Lands.>>

A lot of ifs, but I'm following you.  Nevertheless, I
wonder, in the absence of P's mea culpa, on what basis
would you be able to leech P's own attitudes and
feelings from a story and its characters, in which
those attitudes are intended?  Put another way, why
should the story, by itself, without P's external,
after-the-fact comment, put me off?

Which is not to say the story is all that good and
might not be off-putting for its mediocrity ...

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