I also find it really hard to overlook stuff like that in older books/classics. My thing is that, even with classics, my primary motivation for reading is enjoyment (unless it’s for class). No matter how well-renowned a book is and no matter how many years it’s been beloved, I still can’t fully just enjoy a book if it’s riddled with racism, misogyny, and such — it always ends up turning into an analytical/critical experience from like, a historical standpoint (as in I start looking at the book as a historical source rather than a novel, which isn’t what I always want to do when I pick up a book). I’ve been told “that’s what you have to expect from the period it was written in,” which I understand, but that doesn’t mean it was okay at the time; it was just more normalized. I tend to stick to newer releases now largely for that reason, because I just don’t want to have to sit though pages of content I don’t enjoy/makes me uncomfortable solely because a book is considered to be a classic 😅