Posted on 12/27/2020 5:26:53 PM PST by RightGeek
George Orwell’s “1984” was only a few decades off.
To be really dedicated to the “Woke” cause, BOOKS SHOULD BE BURNED!
He was physically present.
Also “The Great Gatsby” represents one of the greatest works of American literature . Banning in favor of what?
A lot gets lost in translation.
Indeed, but a lot more is lost when it's not read at all.
We’ll have to disagree on that one.
I’ve read a lot of bad translations.
Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35Current Communist Goals EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, and policymaking positions.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
“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
Do we have enough rope, helicopters, and wood chippers to dispose of those people?
We read all of those in high school too. They were required at the time. I had a teacher that made the reading of these books fun!
I believe Homer Simpson is the kind of intellectual that the DS wants all of us to be.
Sad thing is that most of the kids are smarter than their indoctrinators.
Cluess made it personal, insulting the person who wants The Odyssey removed. And did it for several tweets. What did she think was going to happen?
She could have made the same points without making it personal. Yes, the mob would have still come for her, but the chances of her agent, etc sticking by her would have been greater.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
Or what happened to the romance tales that Don Quixote had that sent him mad.
Readability suffered upon Vikings’ settling in The Isles.
Every body in Lawrence with more than ten cents to put together got the hell out years ago...
Racist! I am deeply offended by your blaming my Viking heritage for failures of the education system in this country for improperly educating me in the Classics. You don't even know me, but simply because of my Minnesota ghetto name, you hate me.
The American Library Ass is being a bit quiet it seems with these book bannings.
I guess they hope they can still ignore it next September when “Banned Book Week” rolls around.
None of these so called antiracists call out Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Their claim of being against racists and racism is false.
The point is to eliminate western culture so they can replace it with something else.
The Odyssey, Greek myth, and Greek culture are part of the foundation of western culture, which provides a common framework for our society.
The Apollo Theater in Harlem is black cultural icon, but who is it named after? A Greek god.
The Odyssey won’t be the last western classic banned.
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