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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To: Rembrandt_fan
Read the book, Jorge. For the love of God, just read the book.
Instead of handing out reading assignments, why don't you save us both time and just address the issues raised in the article?
Twain's novel one of the most insightful, beautifully rendered allegories on the nature of friendship, justice, and racial equality ever written. The kind of blind, rubber-stamping censorship you advocate flies in the face of reason and all we know about the power of great literature.
This is all very nice, but I'm still waiting for you to explain why black children in school should have to read books with racial slurs as part of their education?
80 posted on 11/03/2006 7:48:20 PM AKST by Jorge
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To: Chena
Teaching children about literature, past and present, is an important part of their rounded education. Huckleberry Finn is not a HATE novel.
Who said it was a "HATE novel"?
That's not the point.
Since when does a well "rounded education" need to include racial slurs?
81 posted on 11/03/2006 7:54:19 PM AKST by Jorge
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To: VeniVidiVici
"Since when does a well "rounded education" need to include racial slurs?"
I agree. We should bury them like the Confederate flag! Hell, let's bury that entire sad period of US History! Nobody has any reason to study it!
And the rich history of KKK literature, Hitler or perhaps Nation of Islam writings on hatred of whites and Jews...it's HISTORY!!
Make the children read it!
84 posted on 11/03/2006 8:10:10 PM AKST by Jorge
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To: Chena
Those who do not know history, either through literature and/or historical books, are bound to repeat it. Ignorance is NOT bliss. Ignorance breeds contempt, repetition of wrongs, and no hope for the future.
Right! We must make our children read books with racial slurs, so they know NOT to use racial slurs!
Are you kidding?
89 posted on 11/03/2006 8:17:33 PM AKST by Jorge
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To: Rembrandt_fan
The argument you're making parses out like this:
Anybody who wants to know my REAL position can read my posts.
Don't waste your time trying to assign me positions you feel most comfortable arguing against.
I'll tell you what my argument is.
91 posted on 11/03/2006 8:23:51 PM AKST by Jorge
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To: Rembrandt_fan
Again, Jorge, read the book. You're arguing from a vacuum.
Actually I've read the book.
The only vacuum here is your inability to address the issues raised in the article.
You're proposing dropping one of the greatest novels of American literature down the memory hole because you and others are seemingly incapable of understanding context or allegory.
What are you talking about?
Who proposed dropping any "American literature down the memory hole"?
You talk about "others" being "incapable of understanding context or allegory" when you can't even read a simple post.
When are you going to respond to something I actually say on this topic?
99 posted on 11/03/2006 8:33:02 PM AKST by Jorge
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To: Chena
I have a feeling you have not read the book, or perhaps you read it so long ago that you have forgotten the story but latched onto racial slurs.
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.
101 posted on 11/03/2006 8:36:30 PM AKST by Jorge
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To: Rembrandt_fan
You wrote, "I'll tell you what my argument is."
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.
102 posted on 11/03/2006 8:42:22 PM AKST by Jorge
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To: Blackirish
Jorge "Right! We must make our children read books with racial slurs, so they know NOT to use racial slurs! Are you kidding?"
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?
107 posted on 11/03/2006 8:46:53 PM AKST by Jorge
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To: LexBaird
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.
How beautiful. I think I'm gonna cry.
108 posted on 11/03/2006 8:50:02 PM AKST by Jorge
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To: Chena
but the difference between you and I is that I don't remember the racial slurs.
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?
113 posted on 11/03/2006 8:57:20 PM AKST by Jorge
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To: Rembrandt_fan
I scanned your posting history, Jorge, since you so politely recommended that I do so.
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?
118 posted on 11/03/2006 9:05:57 PM AKST by Jorge
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