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originally posted by: JanAmosComenius
a reply to: Spiramirabilis
Everybody is entitled to have opinion. But if you are engaged in policy discussion, you should use some common tools like logic. Annee is right to be offended by those books, and she supplied "reason" why she is offended. But I do not understand it. May be in your words. What is bad on those books?
It's a safe space and a very artificial one.
A Virginia school district has pulled copies of “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from classrooms and libraries while it weighs whether it should permanently ban the American classics because of the books’ use of racial slurs.
In response to a formal complaint from a parent, Accomack County Public Schools Superintendent Chris Holland said the district has appointed a committee to recommend whether the books should remain in the curriculum and stay in school libraries. District policy calls for the formation of the committee — which can include a principal, teachers and parents — when a parent formally files a complaint.
Does teaching these books, or other examples of difficult and uncomfortable racially charged literature, mean that teachers are condoning this language? Of course not, many literature experts say – in fact, for many teachers, avoiding such stories would amount to erasing the reality of racism. The real challenge, they say, is that the outcome of any lesson depends largely on the teachers involved. "I think the key point to make here is that the burden of freedom of speech is not borne equally by all people. African-American students hear those words differently – the argument for banning the books is that the white kids don’t bear the burden of freedom of speech in the same way," Philip Nel, a professor of English at Kansas State University who specializes in children's literature, tells The Christian Science Monitor.
Dr. Nel says that while "Huck Finn," for example, is often touted as a great American classic, it is certainly not progressive insofar as it portrays African-American characters as racist stereotypes.
Everybody is entitled to have opinion. But if you are engaged in policy discussion, you should use some common tools like logic. Annee is right to be offended by those books, and she supplied "reason" why she is offended.
But I do not understand it. May be in your words. What is bad on those books?
originally posted by: JanAmosComenius
a reply to: Annee
Why "instead"? I'm agnostic and I do not want to ban Bible. Why do you want to ban Mark Twain?
originally posted by: JanAmosComenius
a reply to: Annee
Are you real???? Yes, you are and I said you once good bye. Sorry to disturb you again. No, you are not real. You are my nightmare.
First eight years of my life I lived in "communist" regime. What you are presenting is same line of thinking.
I wonder why it is you can't be honest about history - or human nature?
originally posted by: JanAmosComenius
a reply to: Annee
First eight years of my life I lived in "communist" regime. What you are presenting is same line of thinking.
I am well aware of the Puritanism of the right, and we can go back In time to face them together. But now, it isn't the right we have to worry about...yet.