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.
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
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.
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.
Proud to be counter-cultural.
I’ve never had the slightest interest in reading works of fiction so I don’t know.
So, at last the mask has slipped off, and we know that these people are a bunch of totalitarians. It is a very short step from banning books to burning them. We all know what comes after that: an attempt to totally control our thoughts by “cleansing” society of “bad thoughts” and “bad people.”
Phuck that noise!!!!