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“First-person narration must reveal the narrator's character or it isn't worth doing. The narrator must be the kind of person who would tell the tale, and her motives and attitudes must show up in the story. If you find that you can't do this, you have three choices: You can admit that first-person narrative isn't going to work in this story, and switch to third person; invent your first-person character and create her voice by discovering her attitudes, motives, expectations, and past; or experiment with other first-person narrators until you find one whose character you CAN create.”
—Orson Scott Card, Characters and Viewpoint“What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never knew why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even knew themselves. Nobody understands anybody. And yet somehow we live together, mostly in peace, and get things done with a high enough success rate that people keep trying. Human beings get married and a lot of the marriages work, and they have children and most of them grow up to be decent people, and they have schools and bussinesses and factories and farms that have results at some level of acceptability-all without having a clue what's going on inside anybody's head. Muddling through, that's what human beings do. That was the part of being human that Bean hated the most.”
—Shadow Of The Hegemon, Orson Scott Card
In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with enjoying works of fiction or music created by somebody who has bigoted views. For example, writer H.P. Lovecraft and composer Richard Wagner were extremely racist, but this does not mean that their creations cannot be appreciated.
There is a world of a difference between enjoying something made by a bigot and condoning these bigoted views. We just need to recognize that while we may admire the ability and talent of these people, they are not necessarily good people.
