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Association removes Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from award
Fox News ^ | June 24, 2018 | Associated Press

Posted on 06/24/2018 1:36:33 PM PDT by Leaning Right

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To: Hostage
Her politically correct critics today are condemning her for what she did not write rather than what she wrote.

Oh boy. They'll be coming for Jane Austen next.

41 posted on 06/24/2018 2:03:58 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Guenevere

Her presumably ex-husband Tron is reputedly a conservative.


42 posted on 06/24/2018 2:04:25 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Guenevere

Never liked the series or her either.


43 posted on 06/24/2018 2:04:39 PM PDT by wally_bert (This is the message phone company. I see youÂ’re using our unit, now how about paying for it?)
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To: DoughtyOne
> If you expunge every negative fact from the past, you will sanitize things that should be seen, and there will be no historical reference. <

But it's even worse that that. Much worse. These folks are very selectively expunging facts from the past. Christopher Columbus, Robert E. Lee, Stephen Foster, and now Laura Ingalls Wilder...all out.

But Martin Luther King - who thought homosexuality was a mental disorder - is still in. And so is Che Guevara. And so are those lovable, peaceful Aztecs (that human sacrifice thing was evidently just a rumor started by the Russians).


44 posted on 06/24/2018 2:04:50 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

Little House on the Prairie is a new Face of Evil apparently.


45 posted on 06/24/2018 2:05:03 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Leaning Right

Oh I’m sure they are selective in their outrage.


46 posted on 06/24/2018 2:06:16 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Leaning Right

The “loving arms” of the commie piggies have just erased another piece of American history. Hey America! Time to wake up!


47 posted on 06/24/2018 2:06:28 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: DoughtyOne

Lawsy, Miss Scahlett, Ah don’t know nothin’ bout birthin’ no babies!


48 posted on 06/24/2018 2:07:40 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Leaning Right

This started years ago with the Laura Lee Hope series The Bobbsey Twins...(there were 2 sets of twins, 12 yo Bert and Nan and 6 yo Freddie and Flossie,)

Dinah the black cook was just that when I read these books 60 years ago...At that time there were about 35 of the books..

Now they have been reprinted and some words have been changed...including the way Dinah used to speak in her southern black rhetoric and diction... LOL......

She no longer calls the Bobbsey “chil’ns” her “honey lambs”


49 posted on 06/24/2018 2:09:09 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: BradyLS

Burning the past is a way of burning the future.


50 posted on 06/24/2018 2:09:29 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: Leaning Right

Her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, was a major force in the early libertarian movement, opposing the New Deal and communism, and promoting liberty and individualism. She called Social Security a ponzi scheme that would ultimately fail. Ayn Rand was a colleague and friend. I hope the ALA doesn’t find that out, because Laura’s legacy will be toast by association.


51 posted on 06/24/2018 2:09:46 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: VanDeKoik

> I wonder if the lefty moonbat that played her on TV agrees with this? <

She had better! Because if she doesn’t, she’ll get denounced faster than you can say “political purge”.


52 posted on 06/24/2018 2:11:04 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

Gosh they ought to ban everything by Mark Twain too


53 posted on 06/24/2018 2:11:36 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Leaning Right

Considering she died over 60 years ago, I am assuming she could give a carp what these commies do.


54 posted on 06/24/2018 2:11:47 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: Leaning Right
When I was younger, I had the illusion that librarians were intellectuals, well read individuals with interesting insights. Then I dated a few over the years and realized that most are mental simpletons, gobbling up whatever the party line is serving today.

Most librarians spend their free time glued to the TV watching sitcoms, although I'm sure each and every one has her own well fingered copy of "50 Shades of Grey".

I never found Marian the Librarian or any as cute as Shirley Jones.
 

55 posted on 06/24/2018 2:12:35 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: Leaning Right

my take is that it is actually more about the left’s on going strategy of minimizing or blocking the cultural influence of famous Christians, both past and present.


56 posted on 06/24/2018 2:13:00 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: Leaning Right

A person growing up now believes all kinds of interesting things.

Sub Saharan natives were all over Europe and the British Isles. Cleopatra was Black. The Carib Indians lived a life of kindness and advanced science.

About three quarters of all Dr.s, Judges, Generals, special forces etc. are either female, Black, or Black females. Most of the rest are trans gender or Gay.

Some people really do believe these things.


57 posted on 06/24/2018 2:13:46 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Architect of Avalon

> Little House on the Prairie is a new Face of Evil apparently. <

Yep. And if you can’t see that, then you mind just ain’t right. Please report to the nearest PC indoctrination camp (public university) for retraining.


58 posted on 06/24/2018 2:15:18 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right
The destroyers are all the same:

After failing to destroy the 1,700-year-old sandstone statues of Buddha with anti-aircraft and tank fire, the Taliban brought a lorryload of dynamite from Kabul. A Western observer said: “They drilled holes into the torsos of the two statues and then placed dynamite charges inside the holes to blow them up.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYPjOeJyNDI

59 posted on 06/24/2018 2:15:47 PM PDT by donna
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To: yarddog

Pa Ingalls was born about 5 miles from our family homestead in western NY state.

Most of the TV shows were very respectful of minorities, IIRC.

I am so sick of history being erased by the left and their political correctness.


60 posted on 06/24/2018 2:16:41 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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