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!
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.
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?!
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.
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.
When do they pull all reruns of “Little Home on the Prairie” from TV? Hold a public book burning?
Removing white people from history. . .and some thought white women would be spared.
I have actually read the Little House books.
I never noticed anything racist.
My only issue was her idiot father who kept dragging his family into more remote and more dangerous locales until they almost starved to death during a really harsh winter in South Dakota.
Proving once again that there is nothing that liberal/progressive will not ruin.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the “Little Oppressive Patriarchal Racist Stronghold on the Prairie” series of novels.
Protect the snow flakes. Hide the past. Instead of using this as a tool,of enlightenment bury it, ignore it, and repeat it in the future.
“Matilda Lockhart broke down as she described the horrors she had endured — the rape, the relentless sexual humiliation and the way Comanche women had tortured her with fire. It wasn’t just her nose, her thin body was hideously scarred all over with burns.”