Posted on 10/07/2019 9:38:23 AM PDT by Borges
For Martina Myers, a high school English teacher on the Navajo reservation in Arizona, Sherman Alexie’s novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” seemed too good to be true: funny, well-crafted and focused on Native American youth.
Her students at Piñon High School, many of whom struggled with substance abuse and mental illness, took to it immediately. They wrote poems in response, on native pride, addiction, self-acceptance and suicide attempts.
So when Ms. Myers learned last year of the allegations of sexual harassment against Mr. Alexie, who issued a statement admitting he had “harmed other people,” she felt two waves of betrayal — first for her students and then for herself, a survivor of abuse.
“When the #MeToo movement happened I told my story,” Ms. Myers said. She knew some of her students, too, had experienced sexual assault.
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#MeToo = Pound me too?
Note that the shoe has never been on the other foot.
Go back as many decades as you like, back before homosexual rights, women’s rights, civil rights, whatever. Has America ever been so “Conservative” that schools refused to teach Walt Whitman? “Oh, he’s a known homosexual, we can’t mention his poetry in school.” No. No one said that.
Only the Left stomps on anyone who is deemed an “unperson”.
do works by women who falsely accused men of crimes belong in the classroom?
If people only study the works of perfect people, history books are going to be very short.
I suppose every Miramax movie should be banned. /sarc
Is the book worth reading? If it is, then that should be the main factor. I guess since he is still alive, then maybe they might consider not buying his books and putting money in his pocket. But a lot of artistic types are objectionable human beings. A lot of artistic work is going to vanish if we start considering that and not the value of the art itself.
This is the thing, virtually none of those women never do anything that would make it into the classroom.
RE: Do Works by Men Toppled by #MeToo Belong in the Classroom?
Let’s ask ourselves a question — suppose we have a Scientist, a man, who wrote a very important work on curing cancer which was proven to be effective by the scientific community.
Suppose further that this same scientist was toppled by #MeToo.
What follows? Are you going to ban his work?
Harvey Milk sure doesn’t belong in the classroom presented as some kind of a hero to homosexual pederasts and Jim Jones.
Exactly. It is a bunch of sluts asking for it.
I’ve done Fat Albert imitations most of my life and quoted the Cosby Show on so many occasions... But, oh boy, not anymore! People are cudgel ready at the whisper of Bill Cosby’s name without any regard for his positive contributions. Sigh.
Is there any art we can look at, any literature we can read, any music we can listen to that doesn’t have a gravely flawed human as its producer? If we do, I probably won’t enjoy it...
nyt obsessed with identity as always.
Womankind is essentially destroyed by the left and by themselves.
That is how I always pronounce it in my head
Artists can lack morality and yet be a genius in their art. Wagner was a terrible person but he apparently created some very good operas (though I personally can’t stand them). Heidegger and Sartre were a very influential philosophers but, again, terrible people. This list goes on and on. Satan is probably a great artist, better than Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo put together, but a vicious and despicable character. Greatness in art is having a skill or talent to put things together that has noting to do with morality. An old saying applies to this topic: Never meet your heroes for they are abound to disappoint.
“And you’re a very sexy girl, very hard to please
You can taste the bright lights, but you won’t get there for free” - Guns N Roses 1987
Ho’s gonna Ho.
... AND it is yet another reprise of the early Christian heresy of 'Donatism', where anything derived from a tainted source must be discarded. Even now in the Roman Catholic Church, people who were married, made priests or baptized by 'laicized'/defrocked clergy like former Cardinal McCarrick have asked about the validity of their sacraments. Like the early church when it declared Donatism as a heresy (3rd through 6th Century), current statement is that the sacraments are bestowed by the Divine and remain valid.
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