Oh, 100%. What I'm saying is that "she got many young people interested in reading" is what her legacy *could have been,* and she wasted it. Literary themes aside, I see that as a tragedy.
It's also funny you should mention *Birth of a Nation* because the truth is that in spite of the harmful myths that that film engenders, it remains (adjusted for inflation) one of the highest-grossing films of all time, and it is preserved in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." We may not "need" to remember it, but people certainly do.
The truth of the matter is that, shall we say, "problematic literature" will always have its place in the literary world, whether its intentionally problematic or whether it's problematic by virtue of being a product of its time. I don't think people should be buying Harry Potter stuff, but I would fight anyone who tries to take it off the shelf of a library. I wouldn't want to watch *Birth of a Nation,* but I would fight anyone who tries to remove it from the National Film Registry.
We can't wrestle with the bad parts of our culture if we shy away from them and try to hide them - but neither should they be given a place of honor. I think that's a nuance that a lot of people don't understand.
Alioth Fox (but you can call me Daddy~)
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