Posted on 12/04/2016 3:12:33 PM PST by JayGalt
Adrienne Ross: Political Correctness Run Amok — Literature Must Not Be a ‘Safe Space’
The inclination to coddle young people and protect their fragile sensibilities is growing by the day, and now, it has hit home in a way that bears further criticism. We are traveling down a road in which anything that is politically incorrect, deemed dangerous, or simply makes one uncomfortable must be eliminated.
Add race to the mix, and we lose our collective minds. A dangerous mindset it is, and as it has affected a Virginia school district, leading to its decision to ban two American literary classics, I am compelled to weigh in. My experience as both an educator and a black American affords me a unique perspective...
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I don’t know if I’m going to miss To Kill a Mockingbird. All I learned from that as a kid was that if a white woman accuses a black man of rape, she’s probably lying. Okay, flame away, but I never was fond of that book.
Anyone have the book burning photos of Mao’s China, Pol Pots Cambodia, or Hitlers Germany?
I have been tutoring and under the guise of “Literature” personal questions are being asked on their “common core” worksheets.
One story had to deal with conflict which I didn’t have the opportunity to read since the student didn’t bring his book to the tutoring session. However at the bottom of the worksheet after asking specifics about the story, the question was posed, “How do you handle conflict in your home?” Can’t you just see the answers by students who just had their computer games yanked from them for a while. Big brother is more than watching.
Would Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas be considered “safe space” literature? It would not surprise me if it was.
I get sick at heart when I hear stories like this. Under Obama the Liberals have blossomed like a carrion flower.
Settled science. Settled literature. Let us all just line up for the government sanctioned lobotomies.
No flames from me.
I totally agree with you.
To Kill A Mockingbird is literary trash. It has always been the holy grail to the left so that should tell you something.
Your photo says exactly what I was going to post...The Nazis were the ones to “ban/burn” literature that they deemed “offensive”...
How ‘bout it, dems??? Are you copying Nazis????
Huck Finn gets banned somewhere every year. It is almost a badge of honor or endurance.
Somehow I feel we are reliving the movie THIS LAND IS MINE (1943) with Charles Laughton, in which the local teachers are given orders by their Nazi conquerors to tear out and burn certain pages of their books. Can the firing squads be far behind?
Tar and feathers needs to make a come back
Yep there it is. Gotta be PC. Thank you.
It isn’t that these things are dangerous. It’s really because the indoctrinators and student agitators can’t have the little darlings exposed to anytthing that might actually cause them to think.
Thinking for themselves is the danger that must be avoided at all costs.
100%
I loved that book. The character of Atticus Finch is one of the most profound in literature.
To Kill a Mockingbird was the politically correct indoctrination novel of its time.
The editor completely changed the theme and sense of the book into the indoctrination novel it became.
It really is funny about Huck Finn.
It was another “politically correct” novel, for its time.
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