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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It trillions of stolen tax dollars given to blacks by white people is just fine.
But according to a recently published academic paper, the award-winning scheme is racist by reinforcing notions of “white privilege and heteronormativity”
so does this mean academia no longer supports affirmative action and DEI?
Now, if it were crack pipes....
Sending books directly to children is the problem. She isn’t funding do-nothing jobs for leftists.
Free books are evil and white saviorism.
Free money be reparations and just fine.
Wow how horrible that she does something good.
The better people are insane leftists, bitter and jealous
Wasn’t it Oscar Wilde who said “no good deed goes unpunished”.
I guess the person who wrote this is a professor at a university that "teaches" students in class...funded by our tax dollars.
Because “literacy” is part of “White Supremacy.” It is racist to expect minorities to be able to read.
Non-white people, except Australian aborigines and a few people, came voluntarily to the UK, Ireland and Australia in recent decades.
It is incumbent upon them to blend in as much as linguistically and culturally possible, except for cooking and art.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
The neo-colonialism needs to stop and be reversed.
The program probably does not send the approved books the professor need to indoctrinate the children become progressive stooges and and antifa fighters
Sending books directly to children is the problem.She isn’t funding do-nothing jobs for leftists.
This author is nuts.
But speaking of Dolly Parton…predators go to where the prey is. People need to be careful who they let influence their children’s minds.
THERE IS A SPECIAL LEVEL OF STUPID INVOLVED TO ATTACK DOLLY PARTON
FOR 3 decades————
This professor is obviously a racist because she thinks only Whites can give things to poor people.
But she is correct, heterosexualism is normal.
>> ‘white saviourism’
Cool, can I now get my taxes & health premiums cut in half?
Such attackers are the worst kind of hateful losers.
Whatever happened to Darwinism?
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