Posted on 11/03/2006 6:54:37 PM PST by Stoat
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Excellent observations.
While this is sad, what is sadder is that I heard the same complaint from a student in a graduate seminar in American Lit.
"Thanks for the link. But being sued to pull a book and pulling a book because it offends one person are two different things. Agreed?"
Yes but you seem to miss the point. The lawsuit is because.........they refused to pull any books on the subject, even though many complained. Yet this school pulls Huck Finn, when one complains. Quite a double standard. Not to mention the books many complained about were NOT classics, in fact are quite new and are pushing an agenda.
Thanks Gidget, I could not for the life of me remember the name of the other website! I have it bookmarked, just couldn't remember!
Not a problem, my friend, glad I could help!
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Why don't we agree to spell it niger and argue over the pronunciation?
Different tastes.
Don't blame Johnny's mother. Blame the Assistant Superintendent for giving in to the mother's request.
Have you read the Red Badge of Courage?
Shoot, everybody else has tried to get through, I may as well try.
The use of this word then by Clemens was indeed meant to frame the characters and there was no better way to make the point that what you see is not always what you get; our current problem with slurs is that we pretend they don't exist and by not using them the feelings and nuances of their use will simply disappear.
So yes, one must read Huckleberry Finn to fully understand that it wasn't a simple laziness of speech that led to the popular use for that word in those darker times (Darker, will that get me in trouble?), but an intentional wake-up call that society was becoming too redivided in that postwar era fought bravely and hard to reunify a country so recently torn apart.
We don't judge books by their covers and we can't just tear off the flyleaf and lay them facedown, either.
I thought I was the only person who went to different schools with famous people at the same time.
I find this really funny. Jim is the hero and the moral center of the story, yet people do not want to read the story.
My daughter who is black tells me all the readings at all the Highschools are about black women victims...they are abused and sexually promiscuous. My daughter was embarrassed. This is how the left views blacks.
As someone who has enthusiastically supported Homeschooling long before it was ever legal, I of course agree.
Yes, "Public" (Government-run) Universities as well as institutions far earlier in the academic path have long had their Literature and English departments corrupted by the Left. Such courses no longer serve as a gateway to the joys of fine, world-class literature and the Classics but mainly serve as indoctrination camps, led by Leftist professors who intentionally select literature that supports Leftist dogma or they twist and corrupt the meanings of classic works in order to further their agenda.
It's awfully tough to find 'true' Classical education without going to an expensive private or religious school or through Homeschooling or focused self-study.
Many years ago.
Quite a double standard
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Good Point!
Down on the Animal Farm, the politically favored get to sleep in the barn. The rest get the barn.
Do you see? It is impossible for the government to be neutral to all parties involved. It can not have the books in the classroom and not have them at the same time. It is impossible!
No matter what the government does it will favor and ESTABLISH the political, cultural, and RELIGIOUS beliefs of the politically powerful. At the same time is WILL actively and even maliciously destroy the values ( some of them religious) of the less favored.
This is why government schools are an abomination. They will ALWAYS deeply violate the freedom of conscience of the less powerful. The pigs living in the Farmer's House will alway get to indoctrinate the rest of the animals.
Why doesn't someone drive a stake into the heart of government schooling? Why doesn't someone sue these government school monstrosities for violation of free assembly, free press, free speech, and establishment of political, cultural, and religious belief?
Yes, it makes no sense at all, and is the result of several factors, including but not limited to
I'm terribly saddened to hear that your daughter is being subjected to this, but she is very lucky to have a parent as yourself who recognizes the problem, takes an interest in her education (many don't) and can disprove the lies that they are trying to indoctrinate her with.
I'm wondering if you have considered homeschooling or a focused self-study regimen for her, as this will be a problem that will only get worse in College?
There are many here on this thread and elsewhere on Free Republic who can give you far better specific recommendations on pursuing this option than myself (sadly, I was never Blessed with children).
A route that I have been pursuing has been the Great Books Ten Year Reading Plan (this is free and the books should be available at most libraries, as well as being freely available online)
There is also the Great Books Lifetime Reading Plan
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