I am surprised they have not targeted P.D. Eastman for his book "Are You my Mother"
It is very offensive to the Buttigieg family and anyone else who has Queer family values.
Posted on 10/24/2021 7:03:14 PM PDT by algore
Classic children’s books in a Cambridge University archive will in future be labelled with ‘trigger warnings’ for ‘harmful content relating to slavery, colonialism and racism’.
Researchers are reviewing more than 10,000 books and magazines to expose authors who have been ‘offensive to historically enslaved, colonised or denigrated people’.
It comes after anti-racist campaigners demanded teachers censor racial slurs when reading out the text of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird.
The archive at Cambridge’s Homerton College is being reviewed as part of a move to upload texts to a digital library.
In online versions, words, phrases and images deemed harmful will be flagged and content warnings placed at the beginning of each text.
Offending authors include Laura Ingalls Wilder, who wrote Little House On The Prairie, for her ‘stereotypical depictions of Native Americans’.
Another is Dr Theodor Seuss Geisel, author of the Dr Seuss books, for ‘overt blackface’ and cultural insensitivities.
The Water Babies, Charles Kingsley’s 1863 children’s classic about a young chimney sweep, is described as having the potential to ‘harm readers without warning’ for comments about Irish and black people.
L Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, is also cited for ‘white supremacy’ in his Bandit Jim Crow, written under the pen name of Laura Bancroft.
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I am surprised they have not targeted P.D. Eastman for his book "Are You my Mother"
It is very offensive to the Buttigieg family and anyone else who has Queer family values.
None of this has anything to do with being offended and everything to do with changing the culture of a free nation. But you knew that.
omg! The world has gone all out totalitarian.
Honestly I am offended by this behavior, but in this case it is Cambridge University in England.
In the US I am a member of the AILA
I am shocked at the infiltration and vocalness of the LGBTQA@I## and other agenda puppets
It is offensive to teach the young to be afraid of language. When we stopped teaching kids “Sticks and stones” we made a mistake.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r649tBDNJpc
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tuEO8coY1rQ
It’s called sterotyping.
The hungry caterpillar will be next for wasting food and changing into a butterfly without a medical professional’s guidance and a Social workers approval.
Oh, your second one (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tuEO8coY1rQ) drives me nuts. I turn the channel. How stupid are these ad people??
None of this has anything to do with being offended and everything to do with changing the culture of a free nation. But you knew that.
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Exactly the tactic of Islam btw.
Dems, commies, Nazis , Jihadies
SSDD.
Yeah. Really liking the ones for AIDS treatment drugs where everyone is “of color.”
I mean really. Don’t they know that Mexicans push lawnmowers?
What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the pneumatic tubes led [in 2021, optical cables], he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of ‘The Times’ had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs — to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place. The largest section of the Records Department, far larger than the one on which Winston worked, consisted simply of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books, newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for destruction. A number of ‘The Times’ which might, because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother, have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other copy existed to contradict it. Books, also, were recalled and rewritten again and again, and were invariably reissued without any admission that any alteration had been made. Even the written instructions which Winston received, and which he invariably got rid of as soon as he had dealt with them, never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed: always the reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to put right in the interests of accuracy.
“A series of tubes” is a phrase used originally as an analogy in 2006 by then-United States Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) to describe the Internet in the context of opposing network neutrality.
The metaphor has been widely ridiculed, particularly because Stevens (supposedly) displayed an extremely limited understanding of the Internet, even though he was in charge of the Senate committee with the responsibility for regulating it.
I’ve got to reread 1984. The main thing I remembered from reading it was Newspeak, which I think of every time I read of a transgender “woman.”
I reread it ten years ago. I fear it’s LOT more scary today.
Destroying historical books have always been a clear sign that a county is going to fall. Look at history while it can be found, before it’s too late. Mark my word the destroyers will attack and destroy libraries after the statues are all gone.
children’s book... don’t you have to be traumatized by something before you need what ever a “trigger warning” is to warn you about?
A few years ago our local school district pulled the Little House books form their library shelves for cultural sensitivity issues, I was told by the librarian.
That’s just beyond ridiculous.
That’s when I decided that I am keeping every single paperback book I own. Too much censorship.
Ray Bradbury had it right in Fahrenheit 451.
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