I am willing to translate all sorts of offensive things for information purposes. If someone is researching World War II and wants to have some Japanese government propaganda translated, I'll do it. If a business wants me to translate a magazine article outlining the views of a right-wing xenophobe who happens to represent the Japanese city where they want to build a plant, I'll do it.
However, the one time I told a customer to take their business elsewhere was when a group of Americans who for some reason had gotten all enamored of a really offensive pre-war Japanese intellectual decided that they wanted to promote his ideas. I had not heard of him and knew nothing of his ideas, so I innocently started translating. Then I realized that he was a misogynist, a warmonger, and a racist, so I sent back what I had translated (telling them "no charge for this"
and told them that I had no interest in being involved in the project.
In most cases, though, I have no idea what the political orientations of my customers are.
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