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"Writers cannot protect their readers from themselves, nor should they be expected to." This is why trigger warnings are ultimately so useless.

"I remember that rape case you defended, but I missed the point. You love justice, all right. Abstract justice written down item by item on a brief — nothing to do with that black boy, you just like a neat brief. His cause interfered with your orderly mind, and you had to work order out of disorder." This isn't just "Atticus got old and racist because he's old." This is "Atticus was always racist."