I guess that upon further reflection, the author did present the treatment of the character as a bad thing. So, the message around that part is that persecution is bad.
I just feel like the central points of the story would have been equally as effective without Luzia having been a Crypto-Jew. This says to me there was no need to include the racist trope.
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