![]() ![]() Inviting a lesbian coworker to your annual moose BBQ is not enough to overcome an active campaign against gay rights. But that's like Sarah Palin gushing about her gay friends to prove she's not homophobic. ![]() I've read an argument that Lewis isn't *really* racist because he portrays one Calormene character in a positive light. A lost white boy is raised among them and he is sad until he is finally reunited with the beautiful white people of Narnia. ![]() He reintroduces his devious, smelly, turban-clad race, the Calormen. On the plus side, the story is stronger and CS Lewis manages to keep his blatant editorializing to a minimum (maybe because none of the characters are transplants from wartime London).īut holy crap, the modern reader will find his racist descriptions pretty hard to swallow. I feel more conflicted about this book than any of the other Narnia books. ![]()
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