Virginia highschool tempbans two classics for racial slurs

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A Virginia school has temporarily banned two American classics after a parent said her high school-age son was negatively impacted by the racial slurs they contain.

The decision to remove "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain and "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee came after a parent filed a complaint, WAVY reported. The parent cited excessive racial slurs as the reason for wanting the books banned, Superintendent Warren Holland told the news station.

The parent, whose son is biracial, said that her concerns are "not even just a black and white thing."

"I keep hearing, 'This is a classic, This is a classic,' ... I understand this is a literature classic. But at some point, I feel that children will not -- or do not -- truly get the classic part -- the literature part, which I'm not disputing," she said at a Nov. 15 school board meeting. "This is great literature. But there (are so many) racial slurs in there and offensive wording that you can't get past that."

The parent said her son, who was reading "Huckleberry Finn" for a high school assignment, couldn't get past a certain page in that story on which the N-word appeared seven times.

A racial slur appears 219 times in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and 48 times in "To Kill a Mockingbird."

"So what are we teaching our children? We're validating that these words are acceptable, and they are not acceptable by (any) means," the parent said, also noting psychological effects language has on children. "There is other literature they can use."

The parent proposed a committee made up of parents and teachers of different cultural backgrounds come up with a list of books that are inclusive for all students. She also offered to donate books and raise funds in the case of budgetary concerns.

The complaint, which was "a request for reconsideration of learning resources," will go before a committee made up of a principal, librarian, teacher, parent and potentially others, according to WCMH. The committee will then make a recommendation to the superintendent.

Holland said that there is no set date for when the recommendation will be made.
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Henry Bemis said:
They exist, or at least new "revised" versions crop up every time this old debate flares up. These versions never catch on.
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It's almost like a bunch of teachers and parents rather bitch about something instead of teaching their kids. I honestly think because it's such a non issue and teens today (and over all) deal with many serious issues it's the lowest hanging fruit to focus on.

3 kids in the class OD and die, DARE isn't working... well someone said the N word 200 years ago!!!1!!
 
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But "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a CLASSIC, and teaches us IMPORTANT LESSONS such as all rape victims are incestuous racist liars, black men are can't get it up, and white lawyers are HEROES TO HUMANITY rather than money-grabbing wankers! 10/10 would criticize again.

Seriously, though, even though the premise is basically purity-Sue wish fulfillment, a classic is a classic. No wonder we're raising a generation of blinkin r3tards! :(
 
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Unseemly and Feral said:
When my high school read the Great Gatsby we liked it so much we actually talked about it outside of class. If they get rid of that book that's intellectual starvation.
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One of the supporting characters fears the day of accepted interracial marriages and Gatsby is shot with a gun. That's probably enough grounds to get it banned in SJW Land.
 
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One of the supporting characters fears the day of accepted interracial marriages and Gatsby is shot with a gun. That's probably enough grounds to get it banned in SJW Land.
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What's most crazy about this is the group think of how we have to hate X because little slip up or fact but other people get a pass.
FDR is loved by SJWs and it's not like he put people in fucking concentration camps or anything just because the color of their skin. Yet liberal TJ is the worst ever because slaves and no one minds dude used to cuck literally any one he could. I just wonder where the group thinks starts who's the head of the snake of retardation? Who or what gets the ball rolling on what's allowed insanity.
 
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She's right about kids thinking anything they see in books is acceptable. I remember whenever my history textbooks got to the Holocaust, they had to put armed guards in front of the cafeteria to keep us from shoving the Jewish kids into the ovens. And when my AP English class read A Clockwork Orange we all started speaking in Nadsat, raping women to death, and having panic attacks whenever we heard classical music. Ah, the joys of youth.
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Gatsby is shot with a gun. That's probably enough grounds to get it banned in SJW Land.
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A book in which a straight rich white man gets killed in the end would be required reading for kindergartners if SJWs had their way.
 
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Lmao, this reminds me of that time when people got super triggered that Django Unchained dropped N-bombs... even though the movie took place during the slave era, which is the entire reason why that word is so offensive in the first place.

Humanity as a whole was bigoted as fuck until just a few decades ago. You should feel uncomfortable when you read about how blantant racism was in the past, because that signifies how far we've come. Sticking your head in the sand and trying to ban books that remind us of our racist past is so counterproductive.
 
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Cosmos said:
Humanity as a whole was bigoted as fuck until just a few decades ago. You should feel uncomfortable when you read about how blantant racism was in the past, because that signifies how far we've come. Sticking your head in the sand and trying to ban books that remind us of our racist past is so counterproductive.
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Counterpoint: "Sanitizing" and banning content that accurately portrays such allows modern day grievance-mongers to then turn around and say "see, it's as bad as/worse than it has ever been". Microaggressions all the way down!
 
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"Where they burn books, they will soon burn people."
 
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This is the dumbest thing I've seen all day, especially as a resident of VA. I think I'm just going to echo what people in this thread are saying and say this is historical censorship. What's the point of talking about history if you just lie about the facts? What's the point in censoring "n.igger" in a high school when the kid probably hears it all the time? I mean, this kid sounds like a little bitch so, he probably tells actual black people not to say it because it offends him.
 
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