Democrat-the political party of book burners.
Some dude on fakebook posted words to the effect that: It’s about time our side burned some books like the right has been doing for years.”
I asked him to give ONE example of a book banned or burned by the right from the last hundred years. I also specified that age restrictions are NOT a ban.
Instead of engaging in dialogue, he blocked me.
"But what about The Sneetches?
The solution to the story’s conflict is that the Plain-Belly Sneetches and Star-Bellied Sneetches simply get confused as to who is oppressed. As a result, they accept one another. This message of “acceptance” does not acknowledge structural power imbalances. It doesn’t address the idea that historical narratives impact present-day power structures. And instead of encouraging young readers to recognize and take action against injustice, the story promotes a race-neutral approach."
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/its-time-to-talk-about-dr-seuss
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https://christopherdanielbarnes.com/the-farmer
an interesting work of fiction that’s right on point to this article
Anyway, Marvin K. Mooney is a leftist loony.
Bookmark for later
Historically children’s stories were often quite adamant on teaching correct principles illustrated with extremely negative consequences if the principles were ignored. Hans Christian Andersen’s tales, before being Disneyfied, had extremely unhappy endings: after being rejected, the little mermaid died, wishing she were a mermaid again. Aesops’ fables, the same: the dog didn’t magically get his bone back from the water; the grasshopper who didn’t prepare for winter died. It was only in the recent decades that children’s stories took on fanciful, everyone-lived-happily-ever-after themes. And, of course, adults raised in the days of these anodized tales now realize the tales lied because no one lives happily ever after.
Guessing red fish and blue fish doesn’t have enough equality.
James Clavell warned us all years ago when he wrote A Children’s Story.
Have your kids or grand kids read children’s books written in the late 1800s, early 1900s. Most have a moral to the story and all will teach English way better than anything new.
That’s what I did when home schooling our kids. I kind of eased up on the classics when my daughter used shant in conversation.
They used to have a book list on this site but I don’t see it anymore. They do give some examples at the bottom of this page; https://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/curriculum-contents-list/
Good curriculum that can be as a Christian curriculum or not. He’s a widower that took over home schooling after his wife passed but he needed to work still. Luckily he worked from home so he came up with a system to teach the kids to teach themselves and pushed self sufficiency in that way. He set up a room with his desk and desks for the kids but didn’t help them too much.
He has a PhD and his two sons went on to get their doctorates as well.
I have some Russian children’s books.
They have many beautiful pictures and one has a picture of Lenin that makes him look like a kindly grandfather.
The PC banning of Dr Seuss books is ironic in the extreme and constitutes simple justice being meted out to Theodor Geisel. The guy was a dyed-in-the-wool reformed Jewish radical liberal who advocated for every sick thing the Marxocrats advanced during his lifetime that destroyed this country, from no-fault divorce to unfettered abortion to forced busing to affirmative action to drug liberalization to extreme environmentalism to euthanasia to homosexual pseudo-marriage. We live in the world Dr Seuss dreamed of in his fevered imagination. In the end, his own twisted nonsense bit him in the ass. What a country!
We have the entire Adventures of Tintin collection, including Tintin in the Congo, which is hard to find like Song of the South.
Lots of stereotypes in those books, and the one about the Soviet Union made the Soviets look like thugs.