agreed. As recently as the early '80s my region thought Polack & Guinea jokes were hilarious. My nephews are horrified. But no, let's erase the past so we're absolutely certain to repeat it.
I still think dead baby jokes are funny. I'm a bad person, obviously.
The embrace of his work over slave narratives and Uncle Tom's Cabin is part of the Big Lie about Slavery Was Not So Bad.
Both books were written - explicitly - as aggressive attacks on slavery and on the idea that slavery "is not so bad." Context is an actual thing, and part of critical reading is understanding historical context.
Also, to call either Huck Finn or Uncle Tom's Cabin a "feel good" book is a bizarre construction. I've seen people call the film Slumdog Millionaire a feel-good movie. It's central scene shows a man destroying the eyes of a young child with a spoon so that he'll be a more successful beggar.
Erasure and shallow polemics are the enemies of critical thinking. But you know that, don't you? You deploy both for the sake of Feeling Good about your own stance that Slavery Is Not Not So Bad. Enjoy.
I did not call Uncle Tom's Cabin a feel good book. Never. It is not about feeling good, it is a tragedy.
Huck Finn is a feel good book. It makes you feel less racist. The goal of Huck Finn is to make you personally the reader, " Feeling Good about your own stance that Slavery Is Not Not So Bad. Enjoy." After two chapters of lynching jokes, it ends happily. My objection to Huck Finn is literally that the book sells the idea that "Slavery Is Not Not So Bad. Enjoy."
I suspect you have read neither of these.
You are so incapable of critical thinking that you can not even read a comment.
Literature of the time that sought to cast enslaved peoples and their descendants as humans with hopes, dreams, and worth would not have done any good if no one read it
You really should read the books you are arguing about. Or even read the essays you can buy for high school students who are forced to read the books. You so obviously do not want you are talking about, and are being a ignorant fool.
The part of UTC when a woman flees with her four year old son across the ice on the river, her collapse in the home on a man who has never been on the Underground RR and has previously supported the Fugitive Slave Act is fundamentally about the guy recognizing her hopes and dreams. It is his recognition that supporting an abstract policy is one thing, but seeing an exhausted young woman whose beautiful son is about to sold into what is presumably sexual slavery further down South is another thing entirely. I had to look it up it is My Symmes who changes his opinion and his vote.
The essential differences between UTC and HF are that UTC:- argued that is was impossible to be a good slave owner in a horrible system- illustrated slaves as people with hopes and dreams who loved their children- clearly documents the n word as a hate word
HF argues that just- having a conversation with God that puts your soul in the right place makes you a good white person, and then some funny chapters about a chained up man fearing a lynch mob- does not illustrate NJ as human- uses a hate word as a name
Then let's discuss the role of HF in the Lost Cause Slavery Not So Bad narrative and the corresponding end of Reconstruction. Seriously, if you like, just read the last three chapters of HF and any three chapters of UTC.
it's a decent coming of age story about a young white man who comes to realize that the best person he knows isn't considered a person in his society.
Now you explain to me why a decent coming of age story of a young white man is the most taught book in American high schools.
Why would we want a Confederate white boy's coming of age story to be the central novel that describes and reifies the American literary cannon on slavery? I can think of zero not-racist reasons.
Why do tolerate something that was recognized as a hate word for decades to be repeated over and over in our classrooms?
I hope so, if only to see those jackasses face actual National Guardsmen, the way we always do every time we go to DC for a protest march. It will look quite different, without the Instigator in Chief giving them carte blanche.
The publisher decided not to reprint 6 of Seuss's oldest books, which have millions of copies in print, because they contain creepy, offensive caricatures of Black and Asian people.
I hope he never becomes sick and has to be at the mercy of a nurse's aide or some other individual. He may then find out what it is like to be vulnerable and be mistreated the way some old people are in some really bad old-age homes.
Because the people who use these terms don't even understand them and mistake "white grievance" for "cancel culture" and "realization of how POC are treated" with "woke". It all comes down to white people finally getting a handle on how other people truly live.
I sorta miss my beeper. I was only end user interface for IT, sandboxing new stuff, proprietary sw. To this day, I still have dreams punching in printer codes for Lotus... /027/027 something something.
agreed. As recently as the early '80s my region thought Polack & Guinea jokes were hilarious. My nephews are horrified. But no, let's erase the past so we're absolutely certain to repeat it.
I still think dead baby jokes are funny. I'm a bad person, obviously.
If Feingold can lose to Ron Fucking Johnson, Sessions can lose to a guy that lost to Vanderbilt.
Little White Liar
Whack-A-Douche!
Sessions and a few others should be on the first manned space mission to Mars. Jesus would want you to go :PS please leave them there.
The embrace of his work over slave narratives and Uncle Tom's Cabin is part of the Big Lie about Slavery Was Not So Bad.
Both books were written - explicitly - as aggressive attacks on slavery and on the idea that slavery "is not so bad." Context is an actual thing, and part of critical reading is understanding historical context.
Also, to call either Huck Finn or Uncle Tom's Cabin a "feel good" book is a bizarre construction. I've seen people call the film Slumdog Millionaire a feel-good movie. It's central scene shows a man destroying the eyes of a young child with a spoon so that he'll be a more successful beggar.
Erasure and shallow polemics are the enemies of critical thinking. But you know that, don't you? You deploy both for the sake of Feeling Good about your own stance that Slavery Is Not Not So Bad. Enjoy.
You response is completely bizarre.
I did not call Uncle Tom's Cabin a feel good book. Never. It is not about feeling good, it is a tragedy.
Huck Finn is a feel good book. It makes you feel less racist. The goal of Huck Finn is to make you personally the reader, " Feeling Good about your own stance that Slavery Is Not Not So Bad. Enjoy." After two chapters of lynching jokes, it ends happily. My objection to Huck Finn is literally that the book sells the idea that "Slavery Is Not Not So Bad. Enjoy."
I suspect you have read neither of these.
You are so incapable of critical thinking that you can not even read a comment.
Literature of the time that sought to cast enslaved peoples and their descendants as humans with hopes, dreams, and worth would not have done any good if no one read it
You really should read the books you are arguing about. Or even read the essays you can buy for high school students who are forced to read the books. You so obviously do not want you are talking about, and are being a ignorant fool.
The part of UTC when a woman flees with her four year old son across the ice on the river, her collapse in the home on a man who has never been on the Underground RR and has previously supported the Fugitive Slave Act is fundamentally about the guy recognizing her hopes and dreams. It is his recognition that supporting an abstract policy is one thing, but seeing an exhausted young woman whose beautiful son is about to sold into what is presumably sexual slavery further down South is another thing entirely. I had to look it up it is My Symmes who changes his opinion and his vote.
The essential differences between UTC and HF are that UTC:- argued that is was impossible to be a good slave owner in a horrible system- illustrated slaves as people with hopes and dreams who loved their children- clearly documents the n word as a hate word
HF argues that just- having a conversation with God that puts your soul in the right place makes you a good white person, and then some funny chapters about a chained up man fearing a lynch mob- does not illustrate NJ as human- uses a hate word as a name
Read Uncle Tom's Cabin and compare.
Then let's discuss the role of HF in the Lost Cause Slavery Not So Bad narrative and the corresponding end of Reconstruction. Seriously, if you like, just read the last three chapters of HF and any three chapters of UTC.
it's a decent coming of age story about a young white man who comes to realize that the best person he knows isn't considered a person in his society.
Now you explain to me why a decent coming of age story of a young white man is the most taught book in American high schools.
Why would we want a Confederate white boy's coming of age story to be the central novel that describes and reifies the American literary cannon on slavery? I can think of zero not-racist reasons.
Why do tolerate something that was recognized as a hate word for decades to be repeated over and over in our classrooms?
I hope so, if only to see those jackasses face actual National Guardsmen, the way we always do every time we go to DC for a protest march. It will look quite different, without the Instigator in Chief giving them carte blanche.
Nevertheless, she persisted.
The publisher decided not to reprint 6 of Seuss's oldest books, which have millions of copies in print, because they contain creepy, offensive caricatures of Black and Asian people.
I hope he never becomes sick and has to be at the mercy of a nurse's aide or some other individual. He may then find out what it is like to be vulnerable and be mistreated the way some old people are in some really bad old-age homes.
Because the people who use these terms don't even understand them and mistake "white grievance" for "cancel culture" and "realization of how POC are treated" with "woke". It all comes down to white people finally getting a handle on how other people truly live.
I sorta miss my beeper. I was only end user interface for IT, sandboxing new stuff, proprietary sw. To this day, I still have dreams punching in printer codes for Lotus... /027/027 something something.
living the dream.