I never liked that book anyway.
They’re butt hurt over a freakin book, meanwhile in the Ukraine........
https://nypost.com/2022/01/26/ukrainian-mom-mariana-zhaglo-buys-rifle-will-fight-for-kiev/
I thought liberals love To Kill a Mockingbird because it perpetuates the victim mentality.
Apparently accurately telling the story about how a black man could get railroaded by a false accusation from a white woman in the pre-Civil Rights South is now insensitive?
Madness
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Well, yes, in part, that Atticus Finch is white. It takes a white man to save a black man, which is no longer politically correct. The rest of the argument is that its got racial slurs and attitudes in it, which are apparently upsetting for their own sake, regardless of their being ascribed to the villains of the piece. And the black people, their speech, attitudes, and etc., are described accurately as they would have been at the time. And so on. In general it is all a case of fashions having changed, and these days fashion, in everything, including tastes and mores and philosophies, is everything.
This is one of my top ten books that I have read.
It’s a great book and taught me all about racism.
Maybe they should look closer to home? Maybe study up on their very own Coon Chicken Inn?
https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/coon_chicken.htm
Look at the stage show Hamilton...What’s the difference between a white going black face and a black Hamilton?
Virtue Soapboxing is a 24/7 job.
More book banning liberals...
I agree with the Board only to the extent that I believe most 9th-graders are not ready for that level of reading. The subject itself, racism and injustice, can be included in the curriculum by other means, preparing students for that in-depth reading as a junior or senior in high school. It would be a rare and small group of 14- to 15-year-olds that could contain their raging hormones long enough to sit through a 50-minute class session without outrageous commentary, long-lasting juvenile hilarity on the meaning of “chifforobe”, or the girls breaking down over Atticus shooting the mad dog.
Being white might not be the problem. Some probably pointed out that Atticus Finch would almost certainly have been a Republican. As the black people in the film would have been. As was Martin Luther King at the time.
I thought banning books was bad
"Parents, students and teachers overwhelmingly spoke out against" To Kill a Mockingbird.
What sheeple! I'm sure they all fancy themselves as "free thinkers" when in reality they are mired in the quicksand of group-think. They self-rightously pat themselves on the back priding themselves on how "woke" they are.
No doubt none of these fools has ever actually read the novel. It is the opposite of what they imagine it to be.
Instead of removing a classic, remove the school board instead. They’re a waaaayyy bigger threat than a book.