Posted on 11/17/2010 12:11:20 PM PST by atomic conspiracy
Edited on 11/20/2010 3:22:40 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Something 10th graders at Nathan Hale High School in Seattle did was so upsetting to a student and her mom that it's resulted in a curriculum change at the school, and apologies from the principal.
What were they doing? Reading. Reading Aldous Huxley's Brave New World as part of their language arts curriculum.
(Excerpt) Read more at mynorthwest.com ...
Hyphenated last names are generally a sign.
“We’re not trying to in any way censor that book, we’re just saying it does not belong in high school.”
“The book’s point is to demonstrate that these so-called “savages” are the last free people of culture and humanity left alive - only in their world is Shakespeare preserved, for example.”
You are 100% right. Apparently no one read the book.
“It's their minds! Their stupid, stupid minds!”
Criswell was the perfect narrator for that movie.
It's good to eat Cheezy Poofs while watching that.
This is the same idiocy that was demonstrated when people got upset over the use of the word, “niggardly”.
***and the ONLY THING that jumps out at her is its reference to natives. Savage natives. .... That kind of a chip on a kid’s shoulder can only be installed by a parent.***
Gasp SHE HAD A M*****? The man found with the Indians also had a M*****! No one in the Brave New World had a M***** except the indians and that white boy!
O knave new world That has such people in't.
“Everyone knows that Indians live in casinos.”
That they work at 7-11 mixing Slurpees...
They succeeded in banning Uncle Remus, a book that teaches young children about the nasty dishonest gambits that show up in adult behavior, especially in politics. They guy who assembled these ancient stories, Joel Chandler Harris, was a cultural anthropologist. He had traced these stories through the slave trade and across Africa. Some originated from as far away as India. He found the American black version of these stories especially clever and powerful and therefore wrote the book to capture them faithfully, including the puns typical of the humor of that day.
Needless to say, a book that portrays the American Negro Slave as clever, subtle, and intelligent would make it a target for the left, which is busy selling victimhood, authority, and dependency. It is an amazing book. No wonder the PC crowd banned it first.
If I remember right, the savage natives treated the white boy’s mother like crap after she slept with all of them. Maybe the white kids should have been offended.
rofl
Have the students read “Animal Farm” instead.
Exactly.
Re: “The book’s portrayal of Native Americans is the exact opposite of what this stupid and dishonest whiner claims.”
This is known as double-teaming. The Leftist school administrators (and the media hack who wrote the piece) know that Huxley was using sarcasm by having the engineered and derivative-humans (no longer full humans) of his novel call the natural born “savages.” It is another example of the practice of Victimoguery.
On one hand we have Leftist/Statists who want power need to eliminate the obstacles to that power, and an intelligent and informed population is seen, rightly, as such an obstacle.
On the other hand, along comes a trouble maker who voices a slight discomfort over some words that are in actually meant to provide comfort to people like the woman and her daughter.
Those in power imbue in her voice greater meaning but claiming that she is speaking for a vast unknown number of other voices, and thereby add leverage to her words so they can pull such stunts as “censoring a book, but not really censoring it.” The fokkers are censoring the discussion that would bring out the warnings of the book against their kind, and they full-well know it. And the vise is closed another notch. THAT IS DOUBLE-TEAMING.
Western society (fast becoming a shell of its former greatness) is in the middle.
This is why I’m against the overuse of sarcasm and facetious expression instead of calling out their bastardizations head-on. At some point the pin-heads point to the expression as if the mock statement was meant to be taken seriously.
This story of a middle-schooler being upset by words meant to demonstrate the loss of humanity in sophisticated (self-satisfied but adulterated) society is an example of what Huxley was warning. This is manufactured outrage in a kid who looks around and sees that others who express hurt feelings get more attention than those who do not.
The Leftist and Statists Live for this sort of thing.
This story needs more exposure.
Can’t have that. T’would be offensive to Muslims.
Yes. The central postmodern idea is that there is no truth, but only competing narratives. “Narrative” being another word for “desire”, a.k.a. “what people must believe so I get what I want”, the only reality, in the pomo view, is emotion.
But then all the pigs will be offended and we'll be right back where we started.
Animal Farm is not halal. It speaks of pigs.
Sarah NOSense-Wilson, she just doesn't spell it right.
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