To Kill a Mockingbird Removed from Mississippi School District Curriculum Because...

[GunsOfFrankEaton]

..."it makes people uncomfortable."

Don't you just love your new America?

https://www.thewrap.com/kill-mockingbird-removed-biloxi-mississippi-school-district-curriculum/

 

[hollywood]

Dude, To Kill a Mockingbird has been one of the most "challenged" (removed) books on school lists for decades. While unfortunate, it's not uncommon.

 

[Ostatedchi]

Yeah, but the difference today is that the left are the ones being intolerant as opposed to prudish conservatives.

 

[anon_xl72qcu5isp39]

Great book, but it's not the only great book that would make good assigned reading. If school admin's with a mission of teaching did not want all the racial distraction of it, I wouldn't blame them at this point. For every thin-skinned minority that stirs something up, there's two whites that make a point of reciting any racial epithets, lecturing on black crime, etc., and you've lost a week of productivity. I say reduce the ability of the two extremes to hijack the conversation.

 

[MegaPoke]

Great book, but it's not the only great book that would make good assigned reading. If school admin's with a mission of teaching did not want all the racial distraction of it, I wouldn't blame them at this point. For every thin-skinned minority that stirs something up, there's two whites that make a point of reciting any racial epithets, lecturing on black crime, etc., and you've lost a week of productivity. I say reduce the ability of the two extremes to hijack the conversation.

It's weird whe you post things that don't thematically involve an anti-conservative screed. It's like watching a Three's Company episode with no gay jokes or misunderstood conversations.

As for TKAM, probably best to just burn it.

 

[hollywood]

Yeah, but the difference today is that the left are the ones being intolerant as opposed to prudish conservatives.

Actually, since there is really no background in the story as to who actually opposed it and for what reasons, why are you so certain that it was someone on "the left" who wanted it gone this time around? (While I certainly concede that is likely, it is far from certain.)

BTW, I always thought that much of the point being made by To Kill a Mockingbird was that it was supposed to make you "uncomfortable" in its entire underlying theme of the lack of extension of justice to minorities. As someone else once said: If reading TKAM makes you uncomfortable, then you really should be reading it.

Some people (left, right or center) are just too stupid to understand that there's a negative consequence to removing books like this from the curriculum. And certainly, it's been going on a long time as I can remember both my 8th and 9th grade English teachers imposing certain "bans" on a number of books that they didn't personally approve of.

In both instances, their "personal" approvals related solely to their membership in a particular "sect." So, no Catcher in the Rye, TKAM, Brave New World, virtually everything by John Steinbeck (because in their view he was apparently an ungodly commie), and virtually anything that had any coverage of drug/alcohol addiction or addressed teenage sexuality in any way. They wouldn't even allow you to buy books they didn't approve of, when offered as part of the scholastic book club.

Which of course, just made me all the more certain to read those books ironically. I really liked my 9th grade English teacher and then I saw him confiscate another student's copy of Catcher in the Rye and tear it up in front of her. I completely lost any respect I had for him that day.

 

[Headhunter]

When the reason stated is "it makes people uncomfortable" I think it is a pretty strong likely hood that the people responsible believe in political correctness.

 

[imprimis]

When the reason stated is "it makes people uncomfortable" I think it is a pretty strong likely hood that the people responsible believe in political correctness.

Similarly to Roger Goodell and his handling of the Anthem kneeling. He thought Kaepernick's protest would be a short lived event and would go away without him having to respond. I suspect Goodell feared addressing it would result in being called a racist. By not doing so, he opened a giant can of worms and is basically boxed in and not able to extricate himself or the league notwithstanding their own rules prohibit such demonstrations. A bunch of hypocrites.

 

[AC_Exotic]

People are nuts.

Let's burn ... Huckleberry Finn, Catcher in the Rye, and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Fantabulous.

 

[Alpha Poke]

They can replace it with the modern masterpiece Fifty Shades of Grey.

Stay lit 100!

 

[JimmyBob]

They can replace it with the modern masterpiece Fifty Shades of Grey.

Stay lit 100!

Burn all the books, tear all the statues down, but for gawd's sake, save the Marilyn Chambers tapes!