Posted on 07/19/2017 10:38:16 AM PDT by C19fan
A Swedish council has admitted that local libraries have been throwing out copies of a popular children’s book because it contains racist expressions, with one local journalist even claiming the books are being burnt. Older versions of the Pippi Langstrumpf [Pippi Longstocking] book entitled ‘Pippi in the South Seas,’ have been discarded by libraries in the Botkyrka municipality.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Stockholm Syndrome is real
I have a box of proscribed books that I’m keeping for posterity. Huckleberry Finn is in it. So is Uncle Tom’s Cabin. I’m not sure what the Amazon search database is going to think of me ordering Pippi Longstocking, though.
If you say it fast, it's funny.
“King of the Negros” is a lot milder than what rap groups call themselves and the profanity they spew.
+1
Nothing is sacred to the PC witch hunters.
Not even legacy literature.
Perhaps especially not that.
Sigh..The land of the Vikings, what the hell happened?
“...there are many very positive aspects to the book...it is against adultism, grown-ups being in charge...”
- Dr Eske Wollrad, a feminist theologian from Germany’s Federal Association of Evangelical Women.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/09/pippi-longstocking-books-racism
Sweden, if the men you castrated won't fight for Swedish women, where are all the Viking Shield maidens?
Gotta be a few Frank Franzetta books around with role models. Check 'em out.
I often joked about liberals burning books...
But NEVER ask how stupid they can get- they seem to be taking it as a challenge.
The Nazis of the 1930s would be very proud.
> I have a box of proscribed books that I’m keeping for posterity.
Last year my wife had a box of old books and magazines she was going to throw out. I browsed through the contents and found a First Edition Tom Sawyer from 1884. It did not get thrown out. It may be considered racist, but I’m still keeping it.
ISIS blows up antique statues of the Buddah... All the brain dead haters come up with the same ‘solutions’...
It’s about erasing their culture, not about offending anyone. Destroy their history and they don’t know who they are. If they don’t know who they are, they have nothing to defend, and the savages waltz right in and destroy the culture the Swedes don’t know they have.
Book burning and banning is bad—unless it’s not. Depends which side of the Political Correctness divide you sit on
Amazing...
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