School pulls ‘Finn’ and ‘Mockingbird’ over slurs: ‘not right to put that in a book"

[Zenotetsuken]

Jesus christ people

[Wells]

We, the right, love all that is good with the world. The left is not us. They don't share our values and do not love what we love. The only thing left for them to love and value is everything wrong with the world.

Like this is obviously a dumb and bad thing. But this ain't a nazi book burning.

[Aquinan]

Next up: The Very Hungry Caterpillar is banned for its insensitive handling of overeating disorders.

I'd put money on it.

[yetgdhfgh]

Jesus christ people

That book should be compulsory reading for every student!!!!

Though that would be kinda ironic

[Zenotetsuken]

That book should be compulsory reading for every student!!!!

Though that would be kinda ironic

lol seems like it should be compulsory reading for every parent as well.

[omfgreally]

That book should be compulsory reading for every student!!!!

Though that would be kinda ironic

HA, nailed it.

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The context they are used in books is different from that in the modern speech, the connotations are different too. Books however, keep propagate their obsolete, offensive usage.

So, it's about context? How about we just ban Salty crackers because of the context it is now used in?.

[Dispraise]

There is no need for books that advocate for obsolete terms which became insults by the mere fact of their existence. The more modern literature in school, the better.

Or, or, alternatively, parents could take five minutes out of their busy schedules to actually parent, and use these pieces of classical literature as an opportunity to teach their children historical context and human empathy, thereby enriching their lives.

As opposed to locking them in a padded box of ignorance to keep them "safe" from controversy, and in the process robbing them of the life skills required to adequately deal with even the most passive adversity. Like, for instance, text in a book written by someone who has been dead for over a hundred years.

[Wells]

There are plenty of dystopian novels about censorship and authoritarianism, either literally or allegorically, to choose from.

Brave New World probably has more to teach in a society like ours, as 1984 was a criticism of Stalinism. Instead its reached Fight Club levels of insufferable pop psychology.

[omfgreally]

There are plenty of dystopian novels about censorship and authoritarianism, either literally or allegorically, to choose from.

It's still better than 50 shades of gray, which I still haven't read/watched.

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1984 was a criticism of Stalinism.

But isn't it the same as Marxism as they seem to be everywhere today. It does seem fitting.

[Tennis]

Ah To Kill A Mockingbird. That book sure was something. My buddies and I really had a great time with this book!

[Wells]

I mean its a good book and worth reading but you get a lot of angsty kids not realizing its a socialists indictment of a betrayer.

[yetgdhfgh]

[/U]. 1984 is still sitting on my bookshelf unread.

thats a shame its really is a good book but boy is the ending depressing as fuck but then that was kinda the point.

[derpkitteh]

I'm not advocating banning the book and on the whole I think it's good to explore this sort of literature and have discussions about it, provided the teacher you have isn't a total nitwit. I'm just trying to say I can understand why people may be upset and in a roundabout way I'm saying I wish people would try to understand first before rushing to judge and ridicule people.

people that call for censorship shouldn't be understood or empathized with, they should be ridiculed and mocked until they go away. they're no goddamned use to this world, their whole life is a stain.

[yetgdhfgh]

Yeah, I've just unfortunately fallen out of the habit of reading. I used to read a few dozen books a year, but schoolwork and wasting time getting distracted by schoolwork (that I should be doing right now) have eaten up the time I used to spend on reading. This is my current backlog.

I can sympathise in this day and age it really is hard to find the time to dig into a good book but i guess thats for another topic

[Wells]

people that call for censorship shouldn't be understood or empathized with, they should be ridiculed and mocked until they go away. they're no goddamned use to this world, their whole life is a stain.

I have no more patience for "we should be trying to understand" than I do with censorship. They're both arguments for ignorance.

[omfgreally]

Yeah, I've just unfortunately fallen out of the habit of reading as much as I used to. I used to read a few dozen books a year, but schoolwork and wasting time getting distracted by schoolwork (that I should be doing right now) have eaten up the time I used to spend on reading. This is my current backlog. I still read news, magazine, and research articles, but books have kind of fallen by the wayside because I hate reading them if I can't devote a few hours at once.

You can just watch the movie version on Netflix or youtube just to get the general idea then come back around to the book at a later date.

[Endus]

But isn't it the same as Marxism as they seem to be everywhere today. It does seem fitting.

Yeah, no. People seriously need to read Marx and not listen to McCarthyist propaganda.

Marx's utopia was a stateless society. 1984's fascism is about as directly contradictory to Marxist thought as it's possible to be.

Which isn't surprising, as a criticism of Stalinism, because Stalinism emerged as an assault and overthrow of Marxist thought, itself.

[-aiko-]

Well, at least it's only one school and not an entire district or something.

[Mister Cheese]

Yeah, no. People seriously need to read Marx and not listen to McCarthyist propaganda.

Marx's utopia was a stateless society. 1984's fascism is about as directly contradictory to Marxist thought as it's possible to be.

Which isn't surprising, as a criticism of Stalinism, because Stalinism emerged as an assault and overthrow of Marxist thought, itself.

Marxism turns into Stalinism. It does not work in practice.

[Sama-81]

Marxism turns into Stalinism. It does not work in practice.

Could not be a more correct statement. Marxism is stateless in theory only, it will inevitably look far more like stalinism than anything else. Not least since it's a (very obviously so) necessary step to get there in the first place. That, and the fact that once in said state, it will (even more obviously so) remain such rather than progressing further. Imagining that a working marxist utopia could exist in practice, large-scale, within any sort of meaningful time-scale, could be used as a sort of a self-check for political maturity. The lack of it, that is.