Evidence of where the sensitive college students are coming from?
A Virginia school district has banned two classic American novels after parents complained they were racist.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have been temporarily removed from shelves because they use the N-word more than 250 times.
…according to WTVR.com, Accomack County Public Schools has removed both books from the shelves of its schools while they investigate complains into the books which, which have been available for 56 years, in the case of Lee’s novel and 132 years with Huck Finn.
One mother complained: ‘There’s so much racial slurs and defensive wording in there that you can’t get past that. Right now, we are a nation divided as it is.’
. . . School authorities were forced to act on the complaint and removed the novels pending ‘a review committee consisting of the principal, the library media specialist, the classroom teacher (if involved, a parent and / or student, and the complainant will convene.’
One parent Teresa Wilkins said: ‘It’s in a book and they’ll feel they are able to say that to anybody, and so I don’t feel that that should be done.’
David Simon, award winning journalist, author, and creator of The Wire tweeted: ‘We are going backwards,’ after hearing about the controversy.
Sort of like saying The Wire has nudity and bad language. A lot of pietists out there.
Old Life 
It’s bad, but it’s not new. A hundred years ago, The Merchant of Venice was banned in some schools because of its “antisemitism.”
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Still would prefer to boycott disney but my family has predestined otherwise
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Curt, why not just refrain? That’s more Christian than boycotting.
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Zrim,
First, how does one refrain from a family trip? And what do you mean by refrain?
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Curt, I don’t know but if you figure out a way, pass it along. Refraining is how someone lives by his principles without needing to make a point to others that his are superior. Refraining is Christian, boycotting is worldly.
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Zrim, defining ‘refraining’ by living “without needing to make a point” may not be very helpful since simply living by one’s principles is sometimes construed to mean “he considers his principles superior, the prig!” — whether or not we feel the “need” to make a point or not. The point is, in other words, implied. Superiority need not be identified with the person, but it’s very hard to separate the two.
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R, it’s hard to account for everything, not to mention a mis-reading of living by principles that may cause one to zig instead of zag. If I leave the room because I’m ill-at-ease with the TV violence others aren’t, I may well be called a prig, but that’s hardly accurate. When I return with a sign reading “Down with TV Violence,” I’ve entered a-hole land.
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Sort of like saying The Wire has nudity and bad language. A lot of pietists out there.
This won’t work forever Darryl.
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Zrim,
Free speech is worldly. So is breathing. Not all that is worldly is bad.
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Curt, all that is worldly is bad, but not all that is neutral is worldly. But how is pointing judgmental fingers living a quiet and peaceful life?
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Zrim: When I return with a sign reading “Down with TV Violence,” I’ve entered a-hole land.
Or self-aware irony. Who can keep up these days?
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Jeff, just say no to bad things and stuff, etc.
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David Simon–“At that point I already had some ideas about what do you do about a tyrant.”
The Spirituality of The Church and States Rights vs Urban Values and Socialism
John Turturro’s southern rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf as the court chaplian laundering the antisemitic image of Lindbergh’s campaign….
The role played by Americans in World War II as mythologized as the roles played by Cornelius Van Til and Gordon Clark in the alliance of Clowney and Westminster Seminary with “evangelicals”
“In Roth’s book The Plot Against America, a combination of fate and national outrage eventually reinstate democratic government and the course of history: Lindbergh’s plane mysteriously disappears without a clear explanation and the novel ends at the moment FDR is reelected. But David Simon was not comfortable with giving his adaptation the same clean, restorative conclusion…. The series ends right before the election results are announced. The finale also adds an element of voter disenfranchisement that was absent from Roth’s novel, making the election results even more unfair and uncertain.
https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/david-simon-plot-against-america-finale.html
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