Nuance! You can do better than black and white, good/bad binary decisions. I totally care about those other factors. And I am acutely aware of the effect that

Nuance! You can do better than black and white, good/bad binary decisions. I totally care about those other factors. And I am acutely aware of the effect that physical abuse has on real, actual people. It's unavoidable that this would effect my reading of someone's work. That the writers of the Constitution were morally fallible means they weren't the final authority, and we should be willing to grow. They had wisdom; we should take what we can of it, and take a nuanced view. This is no different from my take on DFW: there's art and learning to be had, but it's no longer the pure and innocent enjoyment I would have had prior to knowing how personally hurtful he could be. The MLK stuff is uncertain as yet; the FBI was clearly trying to blackmail him, but the records remain sealed. We'll know more in a couple years: https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1997/summer/equality-in-the-sixties.html#f3 https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1997/summer/e...