Posted on 12/15/2015 3:55:46 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
The politically correct crowd just got a great American novel banned
By David K. Li
A suburban Philadelphia school expelled “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn†from its curriculum over the book’s overuse of the N-word.
The Friends’ Central School removed the Mark Twain classic from the 11th-grade American literature class last week after students said it made them feel uncomfortable, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
“We have all come to the conclusion that the community costs of reading this book in 11th grade outweigh the literary benefits,†principal Art Hall said in a letter to parents.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
We will know that America is returning to greatness when people are allowed to speak words again. Saying “nigger” in the context of a relevant discussion...such as its use in a novel or a Quintin Tarantino movie...should not be prohibited. The article should just go ahead and use the word as it is Germain to the discussion. Frowning upon its use in general conversation or as a insult can still be prohibited by social dictate, but banning the word outright is the height of stupidity, as demonstrated by the school’s action.
If I can be assaulted by a megabase rendition of a rap with the lyrics “nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger,” (I’m not making this up) while pumping gas into my truck, then arguing that the word should never be used is total BS.
Not to mention, stupid.
Quaker schools in this area run VERY expensive. 25 K.
The people who send their children there run leftist.
The schools try to recruit and give scholarships to black students, so that they will have diversity.
It makes for a walking on eggshells mix.
Keep the students ignorant and mentally unchallenged. it makes it much easier for the government to control them.
To me it’s the greatest novel I ever read, and I read it countless times starting when I was around 10 years old, I’m 53 now. Matter of fact it was my fathers copy from 1945 and I read it so much it eventually fell apart! There is so many great parts in that book it’s unreal, the Grangerford -Shepherdson feud, the King and the Duke which is hilarious, the Duke makes pretend he is deaf “Goo Goo”, or the nonesuch play they put on and they get tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail, Huck hiding out on Jackson Island and he hears the cannon from the steamboat coming, and the bread with the Mercury in it, there are so so so so many great parts in that book I never get tired of it. But one thing I do remember, hardcore clear as day, is that when I did first read it when I was a kid, it did the exact opposite of what these idiots are claiming: It made me compassionate towards blacks, it made racism absolutely unthinkable to me! It got me mad that such a thing even existed. Well gee whiz, how can that be with the evil “N” word all over the book?
Two more lousy excuses I can’t imagine.
Nigger, by Dick Gregory.
It’s a book. $7.99 in paperback.
All I can say is that it is a good thing they weren't reading Puddinhead Wilson. (Incidentally a treatise on 'Nature vs. Nurture')
They would have had immediate seizures just reading the Cliff's Notes.
yet “heather has two mommies” is okay
You’re absolutely right. I cringe every time I read articles discussing the n-word, b-word, c-word, f-word. A nation of preschool-level ninnies almost deserves to be crushed.
But you didn’t get any counseling?
IIRC, there is a scene where Jim objects to Huck calling him a nigger. Huck replies, “But that’s what your are, Jim!”
“EPITHET -
: a word or phrase that describes a person or thing
: an offensive word or name that is used as a way of abusing or insulting someone”
Jim perceives the term as an epithet used in the secondary meaning of that word, offensively. For Huck, the primary meaning applied. (BTW, I doubt either Jim or Huck ever heard the word “epithet’)
Huck’s vocabulary was lacking the epithet, “African-American”. The only descriptive term which he regularly heard for Negros was the term “nigger”.
When we lived in East Africa we were always referred to as “mzungu” or “wazungu”, the plural term. Once, while walking a path to a friends hut, we were preceded by the (bush telegraph) children all shouting “Mzubgu! mzungu!” Sometimes we’d joke that instead of the supposed Swahili meaning of “stranger, foreigner, wanderer” or the acquired meaning of “European (white person)”, they were really using the local equivalent of “Nigger, nigger” in a derogatory way.
In reality, we understood that “mzungu” was the only term they knew to describe “melanin challenged” people such as we.
“No offense intended!”
“None taken.”
Perhaps if “racist, red-neck Southerners” and rap musicians and Africa-American stand-up “comedians” stopped using the term “nigger” and substituted the Latin-derived term for people with very dark skin and Negroid features living in a country in western Africa.
Just call them “Nigerians”! Then, of course, we melanin challenged folks would have to be called “Europeans”, or more properly “mzungu”.
Or, we could just call everyone by their Chinese name, “Hei Yu!”
/s
You got a list for us?
I like the first review on that page “This book should be required reading.” LOL! Huck Finn should be banned but this should be “required reading”.
In their own way that is what they are doing. And Americans stand by, sucking their thumbs..
By that standard most rap music should be banned.
“They’re after us, Jim.” They and us. A white boy and a black man. Revolutionary at the time.
The book is important in American history, but then stupid people aren’t interested in history.
I meant just “us”.
I think they should ban A Christmas Carol from schools.
There is just too much bashing of wealthy businessmen
in that dreadful story. Imagine the suffering that the
children of the rich must endure every year.
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