Posted on 06/25/2018 11:51:04 AM PDT by Ennis85
The US Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has removed Laura Ingalls Wilder's name from one of its awards over racist views and language.
The association had received complaints for years over the Little House on the Prairie author's "anti-Native and anti-Black sentiments in her work".
The ALSC board voted unanimously on Saturday to remove Wilder's name from the children's literature award.
The medal will be renamed as the Children's Literature Legacy award.
The ALSC, a division of the American Library Association, said Wilder's novels and "expressions of stereotypical attitudes" were "inconsistent with ALSC's core values".
Wilder's children's novels about pioneer life in the American West have been criticised for language that dehumanises indigenous peoples and people of colour.
Notably, one of the opening chapters of the Little House books described a land with "no people. Only Indians lived there".
In 1953, the Harper's publishing company decided to change "people" to "settlers", according to the Washington Post.
But the novels continues to raise concerns due to storylines featuring racist stereotypes and attitudes typical of white Americans of Wilder's era.
"The only good Indian is a dead Indian," one character says. At other points in the series, African-American characters are called "darkies".
Some fans of the novels say they offer an important historical perspective and should be used as teaching tools for children.
The letter from the ALSC board noted the "complexity" of this issue and "the emotion surrounding it".
"We acknowledge that Wilder's books not only hold a significant place in the history of children's literature and continue to be read today," the board's recommendation reads.
"We also acknowledge that they have been deeply painful to many readers."
But the novels continues to raise concerns due to storylines featuring racist stereotypes and attitudes typical of white Americans of Wilder's
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When will all past presidents before LBJ be burned in effigy?
None of her detractors could write anything as interesting as she did, and she did not start writing until of retirement age.
Oh my, what do we do about Blazing Saddles?
Oh please!...
Mark Twain will probably be next. Liberals are trying in every way possible to rewrite history, just as their idols in the Stalinist regime did.
Some people must have nothing better to do with their time.
The is the product of group Woman think. This is why women on the left are extremely detrimental and dangerous to society. The library system along with education is one of the first institutions the left successfully attacked on the quest to rot out America. The left is a mix of Nazis,Soviets and the Taliban.
The is the product of group Woman think. This is why women on the left are extremely detrimental and dangerous to society. The library system along with education is one of the first institutions the left successfully attacked on the quest to rot out America. The left is a mix of Nazis,Soviets and the Taliban.
“Oh my, what do we do about Blazing Saddles?”
Have a re-release this fall! Now that would be fun!
Ayn Rand will be next. Watch some libs will call for her books to be banned because it promotes “greedy” capitalism or something.
Along with all popes before Francis?
The left has gone crazy - well, they always were, but now they seem to have the power to impose their insanity on the rest of us. The past and reality have always been the major enemies of leftist “thought,” and that’s why their biggest priority, when they get control, is to erase everything that went before.
Mark Twain will be next.
I grew up reading the Little House books (and the tv series too). I’m appalled that these people have no historical context when it comes to denouncing authors in the guise of “political correctness”. But then, these people are all about erasing history, aren’t they?
Winston Smith’s job in “1984” was continually revising history to match Big Brother’s current positions: “This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, soundtracks, cartoons, photographs—to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance.”
The political Left is taking George Orwell’s work as a blueprint rather than a warning. “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”
Wait for the reruns to be yanked off the air.
Book burning and marshmallow roast coming next.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell, 1984
“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
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
George Orwell, 1984
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
George Orwell, 1984
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/153313-nineteen-eighty-four?page=2
LBJ too. “I’ll have them n-——s voting Democrat for 200 years.”
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