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Even Homer Gets Mobbed: A Massachusetts school has banned ‘The Odyssey.’
Wall Street Journal ^
| 12/27/2020
| Meghan Cox Gurdon
Posted on 12/27/2020 5:26:53 PM PST by RightGeek
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To: dforest
The next thing you know they’ll ban Moby Dick because it’s about a white whale.
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posted on
12/27/2020 6:02:16 PM PST
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
To: reg45
Really. A white Dick. Totally unacceptable.
To: SamAdams76
Probably would have been the correct year, except Ronald Reagan was Elected President. Twice.
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posted on
12/27/2020 6:06:35 PM PST
by
EvilCapitalist
(We must FIGHT, I repeat it sir, we must FIGHT! -Patrick Henry)
To: RightGeek
55 years too late, IMO. I really struggled with all those names.
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posted on
12/27/2020 6:07:04 PM PST
by
Iowa Granny
(Clintion ruined a dress, but Obama ruined a Nation.)
To: RightGeek
If we don’t eliminate these communist whack jobs, we enter the darkest of dark ages.
To: kiryandil
Thanks. The archive.vn hack worked!
To: RightGeek
Ms. Cluess tweeted a ritual self-denunciation: “I take full responsibility for my unprovoked anger toward Lorena Germán. . . . I am committed to learning more about Ms. Germán’s important work with #DisruptTexts. . . . I will strive to do better.” That didn’t stop Ms. Cluess’s literary agent, Brooks Sherman, from denouncing her “racist and unacceptable” opinions and terminating their professional relationship. I hate it when someone takes a stand and then caves. Be like President Trump. Stand tall and never, never, never, never apologize if you are in the right. When you do, you let down your supporters and look weak to your detractors.
To: RightGeek
These people have made racism like their God, or all consuming thing, to them it’s everywhere and in every subject they see racism. They’re effing kookoo.
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posted on
12/27/2020 6:36:03 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: RightGeek
"children shouldn’t have to read stories written in anything other than the present-day vernacular"Makes sense to me. I never did understand Shakespeare, Chaucer, Faulkner, much of The Bible, and more. There is much that would have a greater effect on more people if it were translated into readable language BEFORE forcing students to spend time on it.
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posted on
12/27/2020 7:14:31 PM PST
by
norwaypinesavage
(Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
To: maxwellsmart_agent
‘The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.’
—George Orwell, 1984
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posted on
12/27/2020 7:22:58 PM PST
by
Does so
(Biden's wife is a Doctor, and his son a pharmacist...)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
12/27/2020 7:30:03 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: RightGeek
Just say it. The goal is to ban all reading except the current communist party line.
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posted on
12/27/2020 7:34:28 PM PST
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(White Privilege does NOT begin with Being White but when you ACT "WHITE"! So, -- ACT "WHITE"!)
To: dforest
I read Homer’s The Odyssey in my freshman year of high school.
30 years later, my wife went back to school to finish her master’s degree, and The Odyssey was one of the books she was required to read in one of her classes. Another book she had to read was Beowulf which I read my sophomore year LOL.
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posted on
12/27/2020 7:46:57 PM PST
by
2CAVTrooper
(Merry Crisis, and a Happy New Fear)
To: RightGeek
I got my love of reading back in 1962 when our high school Literature books had THE ODYSSEY. Since those days I have read both the Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid several times along with other great pieces of literature.
On the other hand Silas Marner and Jane Eyre probably caused lots of kids to swear off reading forever! “DULL!” beyond words!
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posted on
12/27/2020 8:03:20 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.)
To: RightGeek
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posted on
12/27/2020 8:14:51 PM PST
by
ptsal
(Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
To: RightGeek
I hope they ban Lysistrada.
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posted on
12/27/2020 8:17:58 PM PST
by
Lisbon1940
(No full-term Governors (at the time of election))
To: RightGeek
Eventually, it’ll be See Dick want Presidency of 1st grade, see blue machine, see Dick win Presidency of 1st grade, see everyone moan “Yeah.”
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posted on
12/27/2020 8:51:54 PM PST
by
Rembrandt
(-a sure sign a Dem is lying - his lips are moving.)
To: RightGeek
Lorena Germán and her groupies at #DisruptTexts may try to ban everything from Homer, Shakespeare and the Bible to Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dr. Seuss, but they had better think again when it comes to dumping the Islamic Koran.
Should Lorena's gang attempt to expunge that particular tome from the library shelves, some bloody #DisruptTexts heads will be bouncing across the pavement.
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posted on
12/27/2020 9:36:48 PM PST
by
henbane
(The barbarians are inside the gates!)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
My father finished HS in 1931. All students were required to do 4 years of Latin and 3 years of Greek.
I went to the same HS in the 60s. All students were still required to do 4 years of Latin. 3 years of Greek had become an option. Another option was 3 years of college physics and chemistry. In addition, 2 years of either German or French was mandated.
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posted on
12/27/2020 10:16:18 PM PST
by
gasport
(Vote Democrat . . . Win stupid stuff)
To: RightGeek
Thus Seattle English teacher Evin Shinn tweeted in 2018 that he’d “rather die” than teach “The Scarlet Letter,” unless Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel is used to “fight against misogyny and slut-shaming.”
The ‘teacher’ should have their certification removed for multiple causes just from that quote right there.
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posted on
12/27/2020 10:52:49 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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