In terms of progressivism, censoring the past is one of the worst things you can do because it smooths out all the blemishes of the past. Some of my childhood favorites are problematic. I love Victorian literature which is rascist is all hell. It's harder to exist acknowledging that people are imperfect and times change. Without knowing how imperfect the past can we truly understand and change it? Also, racism and sexism and homophobia and transphobia are systemtic problems and not just individual moral failings. Nowhere is that more clear than when shocking shit shows up in old children's literature.
In terms of progressivism, censoring the past is one of the worst things you can do because it smooths out all the blemishes of the past. Some of my childhood favorites are problematic. I love Victorian literature which is rascist is all hell. It's harder to exist acknowledging that people are imperfect and times change. Without knowing how imperfect the past can we truly understand and change it? Also, racism and sexism and homophobia and transphobia are systemtic problems and not just individual moral failings. Nowhere is that more clear than when shocking shit shows up in old children's literature.