Posted on 06/25/2018 3:37:37 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The board of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, made the unanimous decision to remove the name of author Laura Ingalls Wilder from a major children’s book award at a meeting in New Orleans on Saturday.
The name of the prize has been changed from the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award to the Children’s Literature Legacy Award, the Guardian reports.
The association, which took the vote at its board meeting in New Orleans, said the vote “was greeted by a standing ovation by the audience in attendance,” Fox News reports.
Wilder is best known for her beloved Little House on the Prairie novels, which the ALSC has stated “includes expressions of stereotypical attitudes inconsistent with ALSC’s core values” based on Wilder’s portrayal of black people and Native Americans.
The first award was given to Wilder in 1954. The ALSC, which is based in Chicago, says her work continues to be published and read but her “legacy is complex” and “not universally embraced.”
In February, the ALA announced that it was reconsidering the name of the Wilder Award. At the time, the ALA declared that her legacy put the group in the position of serving children’s reading and education while being unable to model values of “inclusiveness, integrity and respect.” Wilder’s books, it stated, “reflect racist and anti-Native sentiments and are not universally embraced.”
Wilder was born in 1867 and died in 1957. Her most famous novel, Little House on the Prairie (1935), has inspired almost as much disapproval as devotion. The novel has racist elements, and its portrayal of Native Americans has had consequences when read uncritically in schools.
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History shouldn’t be judged in the rear view mirror.
“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
Awww snap! They’ve gone and messed with Half-Pint!
Seriously, though, you wonder when—or if—this madness is ever going to end. How ridiculous to hold classic literature up to today’s PC/SJW standards. Better never let the chilluns read North and South!
The mutants clamoring for these revisions to history are often from cultures that could never produce a society as wholesome and productive as that of the WASP culture of the Ingalls.
Darwin’s “Most Favored Races” should certainly disqualify him from any favored status then, right?
Laura pointed out that Indians could be quite rude and is now being punished for it. Luckily, I was given the entire set at Christmas.
Or their darling, Marx, who asserted that Mexicans were too lazy, or too uncaring, to hang onto California — a piece of geography they didn’t realize was worth holding onto?
The past is a different country. Some things may be better, some things worse, but that doesn’t mean one cannot reach a balanced judgment in favour of something past, and it shouldn’t be judged by current standards, and definitely there should be no Orwellian erasure of the past.
How in Hell are we going to stop this bleach-bitting history and truth?!
Chicago? Home of Barack Hussein Obama. Also the home of the CPUSA (Communist Party USA).
There’s a passage in the pages at the end of our family Bible where births and deaths are recorded.
It reads John, Sarah and 3 infants murdered by Cherokee Indians, Summer 1735.
You can’t change the past and during the time they lived their conduct was considered appropriate not racist. I’m sure than Laura Ingalls Wilder’s conduct today would be in keeping with today’s standards.
Also, I have 2 nephews who are 1/2 Cherokee. Should I hold them accountable for a racist act of murder that was committed 283 years ago?
Here is the list of board of directors for the ALSC:
http://www.ala.org/alsc/aboutalsc/governance/boardroster
And examination of the list would probably be interesting.
So I suppose they’ll take re-runs of Little House off the air. Kinda like Roseanne.
For one thing, they're all chicks. Women in groups tend to very conformist--that is, very intolerant of differences or dissenting views. Since libraries and reading itself became increasingly abandoned by males, it's been taken over by various female groups. The national, establishment groups tend to be the most Communist and hysterical, since those were targeted by Reds who wanted to get ahead first. Library Science itself and Teachers College Columbia, which I think had a lot to do with shaping it, has had a very odd, perverse agenda for a long time. Partly this is because of the influence of Child Psychology ideas derived by people who a) didn't have children; or b) were so crazy and ideological, they screwed up their children.
Why is the board of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), taking it upon itself to re-write history? Is that not what Communists do? History is what it is. The ALSC must have a few self righteous snobs.
Do they themselves have any accomplishments comparable to Laura Ingalls Wilder? Do they have to smear her to feel better about themselves?
Somewhere in my stack of stuff is a first edition of Little House on the Prairie.
It’s in bad condition but I better hide it before the all wise liberals come to collect it for the burning.
Their mental disorder is showing again.
“History shouldn’t be judged in the rear view mirror.”
That’s a great line.
The logic of it is that judging history in a rearview mirror is not judging a history in the full context of its own time. It nitpicks history from a context, a future, that the people and time in that history were never part of.
Warning to those historians, and others, who judge history in a rearview mirror - what goes around, comes around.
ALSC
Now will be memorialized as the Association of Lesbian Services for Children
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