Posted on 07/03/2024 12:59:17 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Dolly Parton has been accused of “white saviourism” for giving millions of free books to poor children.
The reading scheme, called Imagination Library, was launched by the country and western star in the US more than three decades ago. It now operates in the UK, Ireland, Canada and Australia, and has been lauded for helping to drive up literacy rates.
It gives disadvantaged pupils the same access to books as their middle-class peers by sending high-quality titles directly to the homes of under-fives.
But according to a recently published academic paper, the award-winning scheme is racist by reinforcing notions of “white privilege and heteronormativity” and not representing enough cultural diversity, disability, trans and bisexual gender identities and non-traditional family structures.
The academic paper, by speech and language pathologist Jennifer Stone, published by the University of North Carolina, asserts that Dolly Parton’s philanthropy is “potentially dangerous” and smacks of “white savourism”
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ah so!
yet another brand-new “crime” from the extreme left
“white savoiorism”
so,
it is wrong for white folk to want to hurt black folk
and now,
it is wrong for white folk to want to help black folk
the solution for DOlly Parton...the left will throw her in prison?
hummmm....what part of this story am I not quite understanding?
Annnnd why don’t rich blacks do this????They leave it to “”white saviors.....
“scheme”?
Of course cause of slavery and stuff and junk...
Oh Dolly, just tell the fool to eat a satchel of Richards and show him your bow finger.
sounds like a sauce or something
Black, Hispanics, etc are all eligible for the books too! Just because no one signs them up for it isn’t the programs fault!
readin is for Whitey...
She went woke. (But the book program seems to be fine. Of course, we don’t know the content of all
the books.)
A few years ago she changed the name of her “Dixie Stampede” to simply “Stampede”. “Dixie” was offensive. 🫤
I’m not a fan of her music, but she has my admiration for doing this.
Apparently, this filthy slut wants "poor kids" to wallow in ignorance ... more or less like herself. And, apparently, she's some sort of race-bigot.
There is no pleasing some people. If you help you have a white savior complex. If you don’t you are selfish and greedy.
Blacks are 13% of the US population but unless they first in line for anything given away then the givers racists.
Thomas Sowell: “There are some ideas so idiotic that only an academic could believe them.”
I’ll bet you the only reason she wants them to be ignorant is because she was not able to convince their mothers to abort them - especially those negro babies!
It seems to be a disease of white women these days. We’ve got a few in our County too.
the biggest problem liberal progressives have is “hateism”. it’s always been their main character flaw but they don’t see it as such. to them its it’s a tool to crush any and all opposition to their fundaMENTAL belief that ALL IN THE WORLD IS WRONG AND ONLY PROGRESSIVES CAN FIX IT! don’t believe me? just ask them. “conservatives seek agreement, progressive liberals demand compliance” applies. our Founding Fathers were patriots and instinctively knew what power-drunk politicians would attempt to do in he future so right after the First amendment was drafted to allow fair warning of the usurper of freedom, the Second Amendment was drafted to put TEETH behind all of the amendments. these bas tards have spent literally DECADES attempting to convince the American people that the Second Amendment wasn’t meant to protect all Americans Americans from the usurpers of freedom.
Are poor minorities allowed to have books?
Agreed on the mixed nuts.
Some of the most forgotten people in the country are rural poor, especially in Appalachia.
What could possibly be wrong with giving poor kids books?
But the “blacks” in the UK have tried to hop on the US racism gravy train, they do not learn from our mistakes.
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