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Atticus Finch: American literature's most celebrated rape apologist
Washington Times ^ | December 16, 2014 | Ashe Schow

Posted on 12/17/2014 6:43:55 AM PST by C19fan

Atticus Finch is a monster. Sure, he’s one of history’s most beloved literary characters (he was even played by Gregory Peck in a film adaptation) but he’s also, to use the parlance of our time, history’s greatest rape apologist.

Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee and pundit, first observed Finch’s new standing in the world on Twitter in early December:

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Society
KEYWORDS: literature; mockingbirg; rape
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When will the Left ban "To Kill a Mockingbird" from the classroom as they have done with "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn"?
1 posted on 12/17/2014 6:43:55 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

There is no apology for rape but it is an evolutionary biological reality. Much actual human procreation has resulted from this act and some degree of rape is probably responsible for the existence of the majority of today’s humans rather than the voluntary mutually agreed copulations that are now favored.


2 posted on 12/17/2014 6:52:42 AM PST by allendale
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To: C19fan

Harper Lee hates women!


3 posted on 12/17/2014 6:52:45 AM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: C19fan

I’ve read it every year with my juniors, but now with Common Core it’s considered an eighth grade novel. It’s actually an extremely conservative book. Perhaps the left is just now catching on.


4 posted on 12/17/2014 6:54:28 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Bogey78O

Lol! I just thought of that. I wonder how many progs don’t know HL is female? The group that claims we can’t label and generalize ASSumes Harper is a male name!


5 posted on 12/17/2014 6:56:38 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: allendale

It’s pretty much the default mode of reproduction in the animal world. If you can catch it long enough to mount up, your genes may survive, if not, you are out of luck. Weeds the weaker males, who cannot subdue a female, right out of the gene pool.


6 posted on 12/17/2014 7:01:17 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: C19fan

I move we remove To Kill A Mockingbird from classrooms immediately!

(sarc/off)


7 posted on 12/17/2014 7:03:25 AM PST by CondorFlight (I)
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To: Bogey78O

The real author Truman Capote sure wasn’t into them.


8 posted on 12/17/2014 7:03:56 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: C19fan

And did you know that Truman Capote was Lee’s friend as a child is is the model for the character, Dill, in the book.


9 posted on 12/17/2014 7:05:32 AM PST by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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To: C19fan

His black client didn’t rape anyone. The rapist was a white trash guy who then tried to murder Atticus’ children..............This ‘professor’ obviously hasn’t read the book...................


10 posted on 12/17/2014 7:10:21 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: KosmicKitty

The story is set in SW Alabama, not far from here in NW Florida Panhandle. The scenes are very familiar to me since I grew up in a very small town in Mississippi during the late 50’s early 60’s. It was almost like reading a story about where I grew up................


11 posted on 12/17/2014 7:12:39 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: allendale
There is no apology for rape...

In an evolutionary world view there is no basis for condemnation of it either.

Cordially,

12 posted on 12/17/2014 7:13:19 AM PST by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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To: C19fan
Perhaps my favorite film (I last read the book about 50 years ago).There was no rape...not even anything that Whoppi Goldberg would call a rape.An ordinary,unassuming black guy made the mistake of helping and,worse still,feeling sorry for,a young white girl who was quite immature and who,more importantly,had a father who was a filthy,worthless piece of excrement.

Apologist? What a foolish thing to say.

13 posted on 12/17/2014 7:13:55 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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TKaMB is as fine a novel as I have ever read and we should all be so courageous as the Atticus Finch character.
14 posted on 12/17/2014 7:17:06 AM PST by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: allendale
Bullships.

I don't deny there may be rape in everybody's family tree if they go back far enough, but "society" is needed for human survival, and "society" does not persist when the mating doesn't make a mate, but makes an enemy instead.

As long as there have been humans, there have been stern codes, conventions and customs --- plus, as far back as we can reach via historic records, commandments --- about whom you may approach for intercourse, and whom you may not.

And generally not only "whom," but where, how, and why.

Violators were considered just that: violators. In many tribes they'd be dealt with by recognized legal avengers: the violated girl's father or brothers or betrothed.

A femme sage with poison. Or a priest with a sword.

15 posted on 12/17/2014 7:18:56 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.")
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To: allendale

As opposed to an outside male lion that comes in and kills the current crop of offspring to bring the female into heat.


16 posted on 12/17/2014 7:26:04 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: Red Badger

Actually, if you read the article she definitely has read the book.

What she’s saying is that Fitch had the gall to disbelieve and then challenge the rape story. Which per current standards (rape “victims” must always be believed, without question) makes him a rape apologist.

It’s a real keeper of an article, she makes her point very, very well.


17 posted on 12/17/2014 7:27:00 AM PST by tanknetter
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"Apologist? What a foolish thing to say."

Your sarcasm and irony meters are broken, please have them checked, pronto!

18 posted on 12/17/2014 7:28:01 AM PST by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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To: tanknetter

Is she a lawyer?
A lawyer is supposed to protect his/her client from injustice. That’s their job.................


19 posted on 12/17/2014 7:29:40 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: C19fan

The Liberal’s dilemma: which aggrieved social group takes precedence over the other and how is it to be determined? Downtrodden Blacks or perpetually abused women?


20 posted on 12/17/2014 7:33:20 AM PST by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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