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Woke teachers try to ban ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ in schools (1 Viewer)

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nypost.com

Woke teachers try to ban ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ in schools

The teachers from Washington’s Mukilteo School District ‘believed they were protecting children’ from ‘harm’
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The four teachers, according to The Post, “launched a years-long quest to prohibit any teacher in the largely liberal Mukilteo School District from assigning ‘Mockingbird.’ And it started with a formal book challenge in late 2021 — the first in 20 years, and the first ever to come from teachers.”

“To Kill A Mockingbird centers on whiteness,” the teachers wrote in their formal challenge to the book being required in the school curriculum, also claiming that “it presents a barrier to understanding and celebrating an authentic Black point of view in Civil Rights era literature and should be removed.”
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But didnt the libs say theyre against banning books?
 
Holy cow!

One of the major points in the book is that you shouldn't judge people by their looks.

The white "Boo" Radley was as big an example of that as was the black Tom Robinson.

The racists were clearly shown as villains, and the heroes were the lawyer who put his own life in danger, and Boo who saved the children (much to their surprise).

What wonderful lessons!

How can anybody see anything "bad" about that?
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Emily L said:
Holy cow!

One of the major points in the book is that you shouldn't judge people by their looks.

The white "Boo" Radley was as big an example of that as was the black Tom Robinson.

The racists were clearly shown as villains, and the heroes were the lawyer who put his own life in danger, and Boo who saved the children (much to their surprise).

What wonderful lessons!

How can anybody see anything "bad" about that?
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woke people can see bad things in erverything and everybody ….

except in themselves.
 
How strange that liberals would want to ban that book.

One would assume that liberals would want that book highly publicized and made mandatory reading for children and adults.

In fact, it is surprising that employers have not yet required prospective employees to read it and hand in a review.
 
Loulit01 said:
How strange of conservatives to generalize the position of all liberals from two... Oh, wait...
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You do realize that not all conservatives agree with every single book removal in Florida too, right?
 
Loulit01 said:
Of course. But when it comes to banning books, let's look at the usual suspects.
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You mean the handful of people that you say shouldn't be generalized to the entire group?
 
Loulit01 said:
Yes, but those two teachers changed tens of millions of minds and now all libs agree with them.

Oy.
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Truth hurts, eh? Youre just upset your side does it too.
Rumpel said:
the link speaks of …. woke teachers …..
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Dont mind him, he's just in denial.
Hari Seldon said:
How many times has that book been challenged by wingnuts? Plenty!
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So because conservatives do it then its okay for wokeists to do too? Keep being you.
 
PoS said:
Truth hurts, eh? Youre just upset your side does it too.

Dont mind him, he's just in denial.

So because conservatives do it then its okay for wokeists to do too? Keep being you.
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Never said it was okay. Great book and movie. Just pointing out you don't seem to care when it's a wingnut con doing it. I remember reading and viewing both in high-school. Robert Duval as Boo Radley.
 
PoS said:
Truth hurts, eh? Youre just upset your side does it too.

Dont mind him, he's just in denial.

So because conservatives do it then its okay for wokeists to do too? Keep being you.
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I will definitely keep being me.
 
PoS said:

nypost.com

Woke teachers try to ban ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ in schools

The teachers from Washington’s Mukilteo School District ‘believed they were protecting children’ from ‘harm’
nypost.com nypost.com


But didnt the libs say theyre against banning books?
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It is always a good idea to compare any story from the NY Post or from Fox News to the same story from a real news source.

For instance, a Washington Post story mentions all the students coming to these teachers asking that they not have to read this book. The Post story excludes that. Thus, another juxtaposition from the right-wing who ban books because the parents object to them. In this case, the students have spoken.

I have often wondered how black students respond to thos novel, where the hero is a white savior. I understand it's value back when most students were white and clueless of the depravity of white supremacy. But times have changed and many more students are not white and they would like to read and learn from novels who have characters they can relate to.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a great book, but I sense it has had its day. Time has passed it by.

And btw, it is not banned from the classroom.
 
Hari Seldon said:
Never said it was okay. Great book and movie. Just pointing out you don't seem to care when it's a wingnut con doing it. I remember reading and viewing both in high-school. Robert Duval as Boo Radley.
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I swear its his first film role.

What threw me about the article and the teacher's argument is that this is English (Literature class), not history. TKAM has won major awards as a literary work. In my glorified wiener dog mind, I thought that was the point of reading it. It introduces serious topics, is objectively good literature, and is leagues beyond other crap we had to read like Great Expectations.
 
Rumpel said:
woke people can see bad things in erverything and everybody ….
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As long as it those 'bad things' complies with their demanded political narratives.

Rumpel said:
except in themselves.
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Especially not themselves. After all, the 'woke people/ view themselves as the only sole and rightful owners of the moral high ground, so much so they've secured the 'privileged' to talk down to and lecture everyone else, regardless of the reality.
 
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