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re: Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" canceled in UK over ‘white savior’ narrative
Posted on 7/7/21 at 5:46 am to goofball
Posted on 7/7/21 at 5:46 am to goofball
The UK should cancel themselves. They are literally the reason for the African slave trade in the Caribbean and the Americas......
Except for the African Kangs who sold their own people into slavery
Except for the African Kangs who sold their own people into slavery
This post was edited on 7/7/21 at 5:47 am
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Posted on 7/7/21 at 7:07 am to blzr
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Blacks sure are a sensitive bunch, I’m sure this will stop the mass killings
It's actually more the lefty, woke whites who are ate up w/white "guilt."
Posted on 7/7/21 at 7:16 am to YNWA
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And this affects you how?
If you need it explained to you then you are too stupid to understand.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 7:25 am to OMLandshark
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There are like 30 books that you should have read by the time you are 20, and that’s one of them.
I'm 28, and it looks like I'm going to need to see that list.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 7:31 am to Shwapp
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I'm 28, and it looks like I'm going to need to see that list.
Atlas Shrugged
The Canadian Mounted
The Quran
C.S. Lewis' "Space Trilogy"
The Stranger, by Albert Camus (al-bare kuh-moo)
The novelization of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Posted on 7/7/21 at 7:32 am to USMEagles
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Atlas Shrugged
Can't remember who recommended this one to me. I read it in high school. Either my dad or my brother gave me a copy.
ETA: I can only remember one Steinbeck that I actually liked. I didn't read Harper Lee until much later. But I went to a questionable high school.
This post was edited on 7/7/21 at 7:34 am
Posted on 7/7/21 at 8:34 am to OMLandshark
There is nothing worse in our country right now than trust-fund radicals with useless liberal arts degrees.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 8:43 am to goofball
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Coming soon to our shores...
Soon? The book has been the target of multiple groups here over the years, for varying reasons.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 8:48 am to goofball
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School cancels To Kill a Mockingbird over ‘white saviour’ narrative
But the media says the only way for black people to get what they deserve is for whitey to acknowledge his privilege and become a black ally. Definitely sounds like a white savior is needed to me.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 8:51 am to Areddishfish
Anyway, here's a story from 2017 on a school district in Biloxi, Mississippi removing it from their curriculum because it made people uncomfortable.
TIME
I can literally find hundreds of other examples across the country from over the years. In fact, the linked article says it's one of the most challenged books on school reading lists since it's publication.
TIME
I can literally find hundreds of other examples across the country from over the years. In fact, the linked article says it's one of the most challenged books on school reading lists since it's publication.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 8:57 am to JetsetNuggs
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ah, the metaphorical book burning continues
I think this might be a literal book burning soon.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 9:00 am to goofball
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School cancels To Kill a Mockingbird over ‘white saviour’ narrative
Except that he was unable to save him. It would be better described as a "white guy sees injustice but is powerless to stop it" narrative.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 9:01 am to dewster
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I went to a questionable high school.
Mandeville High?
Posted on 7/7/21 at 9:02 am to YNWA
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They aren't banning the book from the school library.
Yet. Give them time.
Decolonization is just another way in which anything white and male is dismissed in the name of “progress.”
My concern isn’t the book, rather the process.
Only a naive fool would think that this one book is the end result (or goal) of the left. The same can be said about other similar facets of public education, such as teaching the 1619 project as fact, the implementation of CRT, or the gendercide of male and female people (you are transphobic if you won’t suck a tranny dick).
The big picture seems to elude you.
This post was edited on 7/7/21 at 9:04 am
Posted on 7/7/21 at 9:02 am to TBoy
The true hero of the book is Scout, and Lee was brilliant in how she portrayed the racism in the south through the eyes and thoughts of a sympathetic child character. It "softened" the message for the masses.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 9:10 am to TBoy
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Except that he was unable to save him. It would be better described as a "white guy sees injustice, fights it, but is powerless to stop it" narrative.
FIFY
The irony is that in today’s world of identity politics, as usual, you could rework the races in the phrase and then produce the truth:
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Except that he was unable to save him. It would be better described as a "black guy sees injustice, voted for Trump, but was powerless to “stop the steal” that occurred during the election.”
Posted on 7/7/21 at 9:11 am to The Spleen
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Lee was brilliant in how she portrayed the racism in the south through the eyes and thoughts of a sympathetic child character. It "softened" the message for the masses.
I would agree with this take.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 9:13 am to CatfishJohn
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I think this might be a literal book burning soon.
All in due time.
It will be interesting to see how the left justifies their continued implementation of fascist tactics.
Posted on 7/7/21 at 9:21 am to jimmy the leg
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Yet. Give them time.
There have been challenges to the book since its publication and it hasn't been burned or banned from school libraries yet. How long should we wait?
Posted on 7/7/21 at 9:25 am to The Spleen
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There have been challenges to the book since its publication and it hasn't been burned or banned from school libraries yet. How long should we wait?
Give her time...
Until then, just keep goose-stepping alongside your comrades.
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