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There was a very relevant comment in lonsberry's comment section I thought I'd pass on:

Most writers have projects they have abandoned for a lot of reasons. Great painters paint over paintings, writers shelve books. Lee's manuscript sat unpublished for over 50 years because that's how she wanted it. Harper Lee should have burned Go Set A Watchman. Instead, a money-grubbing lawyer (Tonja B. Carter) and publisher (HarperCollins) are cashing in on her senility and her name. It's not right.

[DoodleDawg]

That Atticus Finch is not the Atticus Finch.

And the Atticus Finch is not even THE Atticus Finch. People are up in arms not because they can't see Atticus Finch as racist but they can't see Gregory Peck as racist. He's Atticus Finch in the minds of most people.

I haven't read "Go Set A Watchman" yet; pre-ordered weeks ago and I expect it any day. But I've read "To Kill a Mockingbird" dozens of times and I can't think of a single line in that book that gives insight into Atticus Finch's racial views. He's an intelligent man, a refined man. A gentleman and a good father. And a lawyer who believes that justice could be colorblind. There is nothing on segregation or integration. Nothing that indicates opposition to Jim Crow or social mores of the time. In other words nothing that indicates that the Atticus Finch of the 1930's could not be the Atticus Finch of twenty years later.

[Cowboy Bob]

I have found most liberals to be extremely racist. They pander to the blacks when they need their support. But when the blacks don’t behave as expected, the liberals start using language that would embarrass a KKK member.

Same it true regarding queers.

[yoe]

Watchman was written years before Mocking Bird......Watchman was turned down in the beginning as I understand it, but only recently did that manuscript come to light.

[blueunicorn6]

We want to live in a black and white world.

We want to believe that a good person is 100% good and that a bad person is 100% bad. The reality is that nobody is 100% one way or the other.

We are human beings.

To Kill A Mockingbird is fiction. It comes from the author’s mind. It may be influenced by a real event, but it is not real.

Watching the reaction to Lee’s book is amazing.

People are going through the stages of grief because their fictional hero has fallen.

Amazing.

[windcliff]

ping

[Zionist Conspirator]

Black people are people, the new Atticus would reason, but they’re not our kind of people. They are junior people, somehow no[t] as evolved as they rest of us.

But I thought all white racists were against evolution? I thought creationism "caused" white racism?

Now I'm all confused.

[Ventilator on]

An "article" where every sentence is a declaration that ought to end with an exclamation point.