Racists Cancel Atticus Finch

[Bud_Spencer]

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is now on the list of "problematic" texts. I'm not making this up. Seems the sin of the book is that a white guy helped a black guy out of an injust prosecution.

But here's the real problem:

“Realistically, it was that they were the foundational building blocks of Western Civilization,” Kinnett said. “So [the authors] disagree with the collectivist ideas that the #DisruptTexts movement supports.”

https://www.thecollegefix.com/goodb...srupttexts-is-coming-to-a-classroom-near-you/

 

[Comshaw]

Dude, you didn't need to start a thread for this. It should go here:

Republicans sure do whine a lot

Comshaw

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Dude, you didn't need to start a thread for this. It should go here:

Republicans sure do whine a lot

Comshaw

Just documenting the Left's various assaults on Western civilization, Commy. Don't click on my threads, I beg you.

 

[phrodeau]

Once again, you have it wrong. Nobody is calling for a ban, or to avoid including the book in curricula. The guidelines call for more analysis of the text, not less.

 

[Lazaran]

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Errin Haines actually wrote a compelling piece on the matter.

I can see it both ways.

In many ways "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a bellwether of CRT, and modern works that shine a light on white institutional / systemic racism in America.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is also dated and doesn't really depict black people as self determining human beings.

The quality of Harper Lee's writing is undeniable, so that might give it an edge in the fight to remain relevant.

*nods*

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Once again, you have it wrong. Nobody is calling for a ban, or to avoid including the book in curricula. The guidelines call for more analysis of the text, not less.

Did I use the word "ban?"

This racist group wants it not taught, driven from curricula. It'll still be around, but kids will be taught with inferior texts because the authors had the right skin tone.

 

[phrodeau]

Did I use the word "ban?"

This racist group wants it not taught, driven from curricula. It'll still be around, but kids will be taught with inferior texts because the authors had the right skin tone.

No doubt that there is a racist group who wants to keep that book out of classrooms, but I notice that you don’t name them.

 

[Rightguide]

Did I use the word "ban?"

This racist group wants it not taught, driven from curricula. It'll still be around, but kids will be taught with inferior texts because the authors had the right skin tone.

Yes, it will still be around, but unknown, which is their strategy.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

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Errin Haines actually wrote a compelling piece on the matter.

I can see it both ways.

In many ways "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a bellwether of CRT, and modern works that shine a light on white institutional / systemic racism in America.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is also dated and doesn't really depict black people as self determining human beings.

The quality of Harper Lee's writing is undeniable, so that might give it an edge in the fight to remain relevant.

*nods*

TKAM is a book about justice and injustice, concepts that are applicable only to individuals. Finch courageously defended a man accused unjustly of rape.

CRT is concerned about groups, and is perfectly willing to see injustice done in its name to attain its goals, something it calls "social justice."

The two are as similar as straw and strawberries.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

No doubt that there is a racist group who wants to keep that book out of classrooms, but I notice that you don’t name them.

Disrupt Texts is the group.

Edit: This is so true:

“Take all the racial stuff and set it aside. The Western canon is just objectively better literature.” Kinnett said. “It is a higher form of language. It requires you to think. The plots aren’t spoon-fed to you. The moral of the story isn’t so black and white that it’s like watching a PBS after-school special.”

 

[phrodeau]

Yes, it will still be around, but unknown, which is their strategy.

Read up before commenting next time.

From https://disrupttexts.org/2018/05/13/disrupting-to-kill-a-mockingbird/

The unit I teach asks students to dig deep into Lee’s book in a way that unveils some of our own biases and presents us with a mirror. While students may enjoy moments of the book or certain characters, this isn’t a text they necessarily end up loving when it’s all over. In my classroom, the book is not placed or kept on a book pedestal. We lift it up, look under its pages, between its characters, and expose its gaps.

Somehow, you noodle-brains think this means “racists cancel Atticus Finch.” Not only completely wrong, but entirely stupid.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Just documenting the Left's various assaults on Western civilization, Commy. Don't click on my threads, I beg you.

Who, exactly, on the "Left" called for this? Please be specific.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Read up before commenting next time.

From https://disrupttexts.org/2018/05/13/disrupting-to-kill-a-mockingbird/Somehow, you noodle-brains think this means “racists cancel Atticus Finch.” Not only completely wrong, but entirely stupid.

LOL, so it's okay to teach, so long as you teach it through the lens of intersectionality and neo-Marxist conflict theory. Got it.

The idea is to push the books out of the classroom, and they are succeeding.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Who, exactly, on the "Left" called for this? Please be specific.

Read my link and be enlightened.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Read my link and be enlightened.

LOL! You are too fucking unintentionally funny. No mention of politics and it's from a hard right-wing blogosphere.

I know why you flew into poutrage though - the blog mentions Kendi, your arch nemesis.

 

[Lazaran]

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Someone with a narrow and racist perspective would completely miss the subtext in TKAM. Especially a modern interpretation of the subtext that has been informed by decades of social examination.

No wonder Pud can't recognize it.

Pud is still stuck in the past like most MAGAts.

*nods*

 

[Bud_Spencer]

LOL! You are too fucking unintentionally funny. No mention of politics and it's from a hard right-wing blogosphere.

I know why you flew into poutrage though - the blog mentions Kendi, your arch nemesis.

They're a group of flagellants dedicated to the DIE religion, aka Leftists.

 

[phrodeau]

LOL, so it's okay to teach, so long as you teach it through the lens of intersectionality and neo-Marxist conflict theory. Got it.

The idea is to push the books out of the classroom, and they are succeeding.

So in your fucked-up head, teaching it and encouraging others to teach it is pushing it out of the classroom. Got it.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

They're a group of flagellants dedicated to the DIE religion, aka Leftists.

Right, sure. How many lawmakers and politicians backed this? From either side?

Your histrionic poutrage is duly noted, though.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

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Someone with a narrow and racist perspective would completely miss the subtext in TKAM. Especially a modern interpretation of the subtext that has been informed by decades of social examination.

No wonder Pud can't recognize it.

Pud is still stuck in the past like most MAGAts.

*nods*

I couldn't have confirmed my Post #13 better. Many thanks.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Right, sure. How many lawmakers and politicians backed this? From either side?

Your histrionic poutrage is duly noted, though.

Next you'll be telling me to post textbooks and lesson plans, right?

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Next you'll be telling me to post textbooks and lesson plans, right?

No, it has already been established that you can't back up those lies. Now, you have made another thread full of lies and got REKT (nod to BoBo) for your efforts.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

No, it has already been established that you can't back up those lies. Now, you have made another thread full of lies and got REKT (nod to BoBo) for your efforts.

Of course, these curriculum decisions are local, not made at the legislation level. Perhaps you need remedial civics. Here's a gal in STL that is using the group's materials to mis-educate her unfortunate charges

https://disrupttexts.org/2020/02/12/disrupttexts-in-st-louis/

She teaches in the Riverview Gardens district, which has some of the worst test scores in ELA (English Language) in the state. This is my shocked face. Maybe if the state instead tested the moppets on how victimized and oppressed they are, they'd fare better.

Edit: I just looked: in 2015, a whopping 22% of her district's kids were proficient in ELA at grade level. Less than 13% in that racist discipline called "math."

Yeah, what a great way to teach kids.

 

[Lazaran]

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Only a myopic moron with unresolved racist tendencies (Pud) would limit the consideration and appreciation of TKAM to "Heroic white savior lawyer fights for racial justice".

JFC.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Of course, these curriculum decisions are local, not made at the legislation level. Perhaps you need remedial civics. Here's a gal in STL that is using the group's materials to mis-educate her unfortunate charges

https://disrupttexts.org/2020/02/12/disrupttexts-in-st-louis/

She teaches in the Riverview Gardens district, which has some of the worst test scores in ELA (English Language) in the state. This is my shocked face. Maybe if the state instead tested the moppets on how victimized and oppressed they are, they'd fare better.

Edit: I just looked: in 2015, a whopping 22% of her district's kids were proficient in ELA at grade level. Less than 13% in that racist discipline called "math."

Yeah, what a great way to teach kids.

You must be really good at moonwalking with all of the backpedaling you do.

BTW, "miseducate" isn't hyphenated and the irony of that is just too fucking precious.