Posted on 11/03/2006 6:54:37 PM PST by Stoat
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The most perceptive post I've read on this thread.
You're right.
I read the book many years ago...and I liked it. But I do remember racial slurs.
Followed by an expanse of beautiful blank space. A kind of mirror of your mind, I guess.
Surely you can do better than this.
The only blank here is your lack of comprehension of my argument, and your obvious inability to articulate a comprehensive response to ANYTHING I've posted.
What's wrong with you?
You haven't addressed a single thing I've said.
Now you're resorting to these infantile insults?
Give me a break.
confirms my belief that the best school in the world for our children is home-school.
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I agree, but if we return to a capitalistic system those who don't want to home school could chose a school that they think is best for their children.
Since any understanding of civilization, culture, and society depends on understanding the history that lead to it. It's like asking why "The Red Badge of Courage" has to have all that icky bloodshed in it.
The whole point of "Huckleberry Finn" is that Huck stops seeing Jim as a lowly "nigger" and realizes that he is his best friend and the best human he knows. Huck overcomes the matrix of the society around him.
Alrighty then. I read the book years ago too, but the difference between you and I is that I don't remember the racial slurs. I remember the beautiful story, and I took away from it valuable lessons that are still with me today. I don't know what it was in your life that caused you to only remember a few words (racial slurs) rather than the wonderful, heartwarming story that it was. Perhaps that's something you could think about.
Children are not that fragile. If I was the parent of the child referred to in this thread, I would have gotten involved in reading the story with my child. I would have let them know the history of the writer, the times they lived in, and how beautiful the story was....and how it may have changed so many people's perceptions in a good way.
Sheltering our children from history isn't in their best interest, IMHO.
I scanned your posting history, Jorge, since you so politely recommended that I do so. Nice to know that you don't treat me differently from the way you treat everyone else on this forum. I bet you're a hoot at parties.
My advice? Follow the prescription directions on the bottle. It's for your own good.
That's exactly right Einstein. 1st valid point you've made all night. A little advise if you are ignorant on a topic shut up. And if your digging yourself into a ditch stop digging.
LOL!
Your post get first prize!
You actually believe that children should read racial slurs in order to teach them not to make racial slurs.
Are you trying to make me laugh on purpose or what?
How beautiful. I think I'm gonna cry.
Scarlet Letter used to be required reading. Sort of quaint now, I suppose.
You wrote, "Your post get first prize!"
All your base are belong to us.
(snicker, chortle)
Yes. But only in the right context. Huck Finn is such a context. Gangsta Rap isn't.
Want to comment?
So, my memory is better than yours.
I don't know what it was in your life that caused you to only remember a few words (racial slurs) rather than the wonderful, heartwarming story that it was. Perhaps that's something you could think about.
Who told you I "only remember a few words (racial slurs)"?
I never said that.
In fact I said I liked the book.
So instead of inventing scenarios in which you envision yourself as somehow personally superior in this debate, perhaps you might try to address the issue being debated?
I have no doubt that there are those who would be unable and / or unwilling to consider the context of the words in that work just as there are those who are unable / incapable of viewing Huckleberry Finn in it's holistic and historical context now.
It's a bit of cultural arrogance (as well as political grandstanding) to impose our current worldview on the past.
No, your memory isn't necessarily better than mine. Apparently my memory holds more content, comprehension and intelligent, and yours holds only racial slurs. LOL
As for the "issue being debated", I think you lost track of the issue somewhere between your first post on this thread and your last.
intelligent=intelligence
I'm flattered.
Even I'm not impressed enough with myself to scan my own posting history.
And I'm SURE not interested enough in YOU to scan yours.
Nice to know that you don't treat me differently from the way you treat everyone else on this forum.
What's wrong with the way I've treated you?
Go ahead. It's the PC metrosexual thing to do. Just like bowlderizing the classics is.
Jorge, you might want to backtrack and read your own words....or eat them...whichever helps you get the meds down.
Jorge's posts:
You're joking right?
The fact is, if there are racial slurs, it doesn't belong in a public school.
This "parent" is right and you are wrong. Period.
70 posted on 11/03/2006 7:25:14 PM AKST by Jorge
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