Posted on 02/09/2018 6:48:24 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
How many people became racists because they read the books? It anything, they helped us see the evils purpetuated by rascist views.
In Huckleberry Finn, Nigger Jim was a heroic figure, protecting Huck and seeking freedom.
Book burning is next-——and I am NOT kidding.
This entire “I’m offended!” movement is destroying the country.
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“So when does the Left actually start burning books they don’t like”
They are all the time. I HAD an austrailian defreind the f&$@@ out me when she was proudly going on about these groups she is a part of who’s soul purpose is to litigate publishers of conservative literature out of existence and put extreme pressure on any institution, school, or university using or even making available by simply keeping them in their libraries to get rid of it all.
She ended freindship when I suggested it would probably be more efficient to gather the books out of the library, and make a giant bonfire in the quad with them
***read some two-page summary that someone got from their relative in college.***
Ah, I miss hearing all those high school “book reports” on the CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED comic books.
Those comics got me to reading the real books.
It was more fun with some kid “reported” on some book, made into a movie, then a comic book made from the movie script.
***Better get rid of some of Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, etc.. too.***
Add to the “banned” books the South Sea tales of John Russell, the stories of H.P.Lovecraft, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, AND the book and movie THE DAM BUSTERS. The black dog’s name is NOT “INDIANA”.
It was published in 1960s with the fictional events set in the 1930s. I think it was a protest against real anti-black racism of the old Democrat south. By contrasts it seems like modern SJW's are just as bigoted as the old Southern Democrats although in a new kind of way.
Born stupid - they will die stupid.
In grade school our teacher would read out loud to the class 20 minutes worth of Huck Finn every day after lunch.
One of my favorite novels is Huckleberry Finn. A copy of this letter appearing in the Chicago Tribune is tucked away in my copy.
Huck Finn editing regressive, insulting
January 07, 2011
Mark Twain scholar Alan Gribben promotes a new version of Huckleberry Finn, which removes the N-word, among others. To me this result raises the barriers attacked by Twain.
When I read The Life and Times of Frederick Douglas, one passage always stayed with me. After speaking to an abolitionist audience, Douglas considered the evening a great success, because he concluded his talk believing these people were convinced he was equally human with them. Those who saw the TV show Roots can remember the president of the black college being asked to sing by his benefactor to convince the woman she was with about how precious these people were because of their wonderful voices. Even the strongest supporters of blacks questioned whether they were as fully human as themselves.
Now comes Mark Twain in 1876, just a few years after the decline of the KKK, saying that even “poor white trash” like Huck Finn can figure out that “Nigger Jim” is just like him. Twain uses a precise choice of words to wash away the entire pretense built up from etiquette, education, wealth, etc., which people acquire to form opinions of themselves and others. Because of Twain’s extraordinary word picture, what remains on that raft is two people who can look directly into each others’ eyes.
In his final indictment, Twain, through Huck Finn, tells the reader that the accoutrements of civilization prevent one from being human and recognizing the humanity in others. I find that lesson timeless.
— Nolan Nelson, Eugene, Ore.
“Forgive me for being....”ignorant”....but why isn’t RAP music being banned due to the N-word’s constant usage? Isn’t that offensive and causing mental anquish?”
It’s ok if the word is spoken by niggas and wiggas. Anyone else is heretic to be burned at the stake.
Excellent analogy! Thanks for sending.
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Will “Heather Has Two Mommies” be at the top of the reading lists.
Huckleberry Finn has been controversial for decades for various reasons. My dad, who would be 99 if he was still living, told me when I was a kid that Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer were banned at his school, because it was thought that they encouraged kids to skip school and engage in all kinds of mischief.
So, it’s not surprising that Huckleberry Finn is controversial for its period language. It’s been controversial for that for at least the last 30 or 40 years.
Hemingway called Huckleberry Finn the greatest American novel.
Except for it’s rushed ending with Tom Sawyer back in the frame, I don’t think he was too far wrong.
I agree. It’s one I go back to every couple of years.
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