Posted on 07/16/2018 5:22:25 AM PDT by KierkegaardMAN
She demonstrates precisely why the pearl clutches are wrong to be offended by the children’s American classic, because she wasn’t effected by the “offensive” passages at all. She only has fond memories of the Ingalls books and was probably inspired and learned about history through them, and loved them enough to buy them for her daughter. Foolish, petty woman. I wonder why Melissa Gilbert hasn’t weighed in on this. Probably doesn’t want to jeopardize the royalty checks.
Never read the books but I hated the show.
Progressive/socialist/commies hate anything that celebrates American roots.
“Can you imagine pajama boy on the Frontier? Or any of today’s snowflakes?”
As a guest on Paul Gigot’s show said this weekend re the rescuers of the soccer team kids: “Thank God for toxic masculinity.”
Everybody needs to man up — even the females. (Is “female” a word now? Is it an offensive word? I’m confused.)
The last survivor of the Indian Wars died in 1973. I was twenty seven years old. I remember my own great-grandfather telling me of those times and how even into the 1918s Indians traveling across country caused homesteaders to gather their families and grab the guns, just in case.
Ever notice that revisionism began around 1970 and has never let up?
I just watched UNCONQUERED with Gary Cooper on DVD. On came PC Robert Osbourne of TCM to explain that Indians at that time were portrayed as evil and not PC as they are today.
Say WHAT? The Pontiac Conspiracy was not because of an attempt to take over Indian lands, it was an attempt to remove the English from west of the Alleghenies so the French could return, and gave the Americas their first school house massacre, and total massacres of several British forts and all English settlers in the area. It was BAD.
Today’s young do not read accounts of the times these things happen, but prefer to be spoon fed small details and nothing more.
Hmmmm. Indian Joe? Outta here? What if Mark Twains books are offensive? To Kill A Mockingbird? The list could go on and on ...........
Rose Wilder said that no one knew where Ma’s hatred of Indians came from (personal experience, I mean). She may just have read accounts of massacres. One book is about a near-by Indian camp that turns hostile. The account is pretty frightening although Pa keeps his composure and sense that Indians had been dealt a raw deal.
And then there was one..
Utterly hilarious how bonkers the SJWs have become....
There are a couple of books out there with the title “Captured By The Indians. First Hand Accounts.” Very brutal reading.
It should not be surprising that 100 years later American's living in alone on a frontier where Indians were armed and heavily outnumbered them, and who had a history of occasionally destroying white people's homes or engaging in all out war (including killing and/or enslaving women and children) might be a bit skittish. Sure, they might be peaceful. But then again, they were somewhat unpredictable as history showed. And such uncertainty you get fear.
Or the unisex little house behind the little house on the prairie.
Communist training facilities, aka universities, have been very successful. Easier to control the population when you can indoctrinate a large percentage at an early age.
Throughout history, whenever there are indigenous people who are more primitive than their neighbors (Gauls, Celts, etc in Europe; Indians in America), they are usually conquered and swept away. Sucks for them, but progress marches on.
This is not by accident. What they are doing is declaring that the world of Little House has been replaced by screaming purple hair LGBT dicque chopper insane alien creatures.
Manners and decorum, my good man, manners and decorum.
The article states that the "Laura Ingalls Wilder Award" has been re-named the "Childrens' Legacy Literature Award", but the books are not being trashed nor banned. Wilder biographer Fraser's concluding statement was ---- considering the passionate factionalism out there --- fairly balanced:
"Each generation revises the literary canon. While the answer to racism is not to impose purity retroactively or to disappear titles from shelves, no 8-year-old Dakota child should have to listen to an uncritical reading of 'Little House on the Prairie," [Fraser] wrote."But no white American should be able to avoid the history it has to tell."
None of the Friends of Laura advocate a non-critical approach. Historically aware reading is always a good thing.
I read the Wilders series first as a woman in my 30's, for some reason. I was enthralled by them. They are top-notch literature. I later shared them gladly with my two sons,
They were almost a perfect opportunity, in my view, to discuss the history honestly. Nobody canonized, nobody demonized. These were the people, these were the circumstances. Think about it, kids.
I have Outrage Fatigue Syndrome.
I absolutely loved this series as a kid and it definitely contributed to my love of reading, and checking out stacks of books from our small town library or the bookmobile. I wish these loonies would give it a rest.
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