MetaJess

Honestly the 1001 nights is all like this.

I wouldn't rule that out from uh... some of the people who say that, but in general it *is* interesting as a feature of reading old books. e.g. I read Bertrand Russell's "Marriage and Morals" recently and what from a modern point of view is a huge opinion clash gave me whiplash

It veers wildly between opinions that would be considered wildly progressive even today to moderate sexism and massive racism. There's the bit where he's saying "Eugenics is super popular, but eugenicists amirite? Obviously eugenics is terrible... if you do it to white people."

And there's still a lot of good content in there that was useful to read, and it was an interesting perspective, but it's very much a different sort of feeling where you kinda have to fight the author every step of the way if you want to come away with a good experience of it.

(Side note: Bertrand Russel became much less racist later in life)