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Lawmakers want to expel Huckleberry Finn from N.J. schools
NJ.com ^ | March 22, 2019

Posted on 03/22/2019 6:22:35 AM PDT by SMGFan

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To: SMGFan

For F**’ssake it was written about the age of slavery... OF COURSE it has language of the time...


21 posted on 03/22/2019 6:49:51 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: SMGFan

I guess the same group will eventually target the “Diary of Anne Frank” because the Nazis say mean things about Jews.

Talk about a group that misses the point.

Or maybe they don’t miss the point; Twain’s attack on racism is directly contrary to the racist Balkanization desired by the Democrats. They want people divided by race and “forbidden words”.


22 posted on 03/22/2019 6:50:11 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: chris37

People who ban books are Nazis, pure and simple.


23 posted on 03/22/2019 6:56:38 AM PDT by Bayan
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To: Bayan

democrats, book burning nazis


24 posted on 03/22/2019 7:05:37 AM PDT by Cold Heart (Oregon, tyranny, taxes and tolls)
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To: SMGFan

Woodrow Wilson is responsible for initiating most of the Jim Crow laws, choosing “Birth of A Nation” as his admin’s signature film, and glorifying the KKK, spreading it out of the deep South and to well above the Mason-Dixon Line.


25 posted on 03/22/2019 7:07:52 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It ishttps://y impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: Bayan

Indeed.

So are people who practice infanticide and push racial politics.

The American Nazi Party are some very dangerous sons of bitches. And daughters and various other unspeakable creatures of that absolutely satanic party.


26 posted on 03/22/2019 7:08:34 AM PDT by chris37 (No wall? No vote.)
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To: dp0622

Can anybody here confirm that at the LEAST, MLK saw prostitutes, thereby giving money to further extend sexual slavery, and at the WORST, he beat the #### out of them??

Truth be known.

Trump gets the attacks from media instead, is God trying to show us something Choir(FR)?

Keep praying. It works.

Freegards


27 posted on 03/22/2019 7:10:08 AM PDT by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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28 posted on 03/22/2019 7:10:36 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: SMGFan

Today’s Tom Sawyer
Mean mean pride

His mind is not for rent


29 posted on 03/22/2019 7:16:47 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: SMGFan

***It contains more than 200 uses of the N-word***

The the South Sea tales of John Russell has not got a chance, neither the tales of H.P. Lovecraft.

Will Joseph Conrad be next to get the heave-ho?


30 posted on 03/22/2019 7:35:48 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: drop 50 and fire for effect

***Sam Clemens used the book to excoriate the antebellum South and slavery.***

His Library of wit and Humor will never make the grade then as Clemens was rough on blacks in that book. But then, he was rough on everyone in that book! Italians, Irish, Sea captains...


31 posted on 03/22/2019 7:40:43 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: SMGFan
I'll bet most of the people proposing this idiocy have never even read the book.

This kind of mindless virtue-signaling will naturally result in the elimination of other works of literature from public schools. These would include probably every book written by the greatest American novelist of all time (William Faulkner), along with the autobiographical works of Frederick Douglass.

32 posted on 03/22/2019 7:47:58 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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I do not remember one time in that wonderful story that is was a story about a white person.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

The thing is not that it's about "whiteness", it's a story that young minds can imagine being right there with Finn.

At least that's what I did. :)
33 posted on 03/22/2019 7:49:58 AM PDT by ssfromla
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One of the earliest times that I actually LOL'ed while reading a book.

It was when Huck met Jim again, after thinking Jim had died.

34 posted on 03/22/2019 7:56:01 AM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: Alberta's Child

And most Americans do not know how bad Woodrow Wilson was .

What do these NJ lawmakers think of him?


35 posted on 03/22/2019 8:11:48 AM PDT by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

They’re just like the idiots who were offended by Jonathon Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” thinking he was actually advocating eating babies. You’ve compromised the point.

Morons.


36 posted on 03/22/2019 11:46:56 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: CondorFlight; ICE-FLYER

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The Public Schools idea has run its course. It’s now become public indoctrination.

So let’s go back to the former model for education, private schools.

The government can issue vouchers, like it did for the GI Bill, and let you spend the money at whatever school you want.
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And this is how you lose a debate vs. ‘big govt’ (I really wish the (R)N(C) would be to articulate better/more concisely):

Or, one better, YOU pay directly and keep the 3rd-party “pay-back” outta the loop for if it’s “YOUR” $, it never need see govt grubby little mitts (100% into govt never = 100% returned).

The same STUPID ‘logic’ for SS: you send YOUR $$ to govt, they ‘invest it’ and return it to you. With conditions. Maybe...when you could have invested it YOURSELF, taken the $$ when YOU want, put it in the will, donated...or spent it all. It’s *NOT* a function/power of GOVT.


37 posted on 03/22/2019 12:06:52 PM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: 1Old Pro; CIB-173RDABN

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These people see “words” without understanding the context the words are used
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That’s what PC does, it changes the meaning of words.
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No, it PERVERTS the true meaning of words.

Only the fool take the opposition’s presumption(s) as fact. Unfort., there’s plenty in the (R)N(C) that do just that; and why we’re in the mess we are today (’trans-gender’, when there’s no such thing. “FREE” h’care/education/etc. when it’s NEVER been free, SS/MediXYZ are ‘paid into’, etc.).


38 posted on 03/22/2019 12:11:53 PM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: SMGFan

What a niggardly thing to do.


39 posted on 03/22/2019 1:33:53 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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