OT School district pulls 'To Kill A Mockingbird' from reading list; 'makes people uncomfortable'

How do we learn from the past if we hide or conceal it?

Besides, if the argument is about comfort..... kids nowadays need some discomfort in their lives. They can avoid discomfort and awkwardness at every turn thanks to technology and social media. Ya know, back when I was in high school, I had to, ya know, actually ask a girl out in person. Or at least ask for her number and then call her and talk in person. Not send a text.

 

I don't know what is behind this but I do know that most movies about uncomfortable parts of our history have an awesome white guy who was ahead of his time and fought for civil rights for black guys. Or a sweet white loving teacher to teach the kids in the ghetto.

Makes white people feel better.

I really need to watch Roots again. Been decades.

 

Ahhh the white savior...

 

I know it can't irritate me as much as it does you but I always laugh at how obvious they make it.

 

I didn't think Kevin Costner was too over the top in Hidden Figures. He just seemed like he didn't give a shit who does something as long as they do it right.

 

It can irritate you as much. Make it irritate you until they stop.

 

I wouldn'tt generally watch movies in that genre. Now that we have the projector we watch almost everything.

They'll make 500 movies about Harvey Weinstein if they make money off of them.

I remember all those years ago why I didn't like Brokeback Mountain. Not because there were gay cowboys, no it was because everyone told me beforehand.

I mention that because I don't care about movie's preaching or not. Just want them to be good.

 

Liberals make me uncomfortable, can we pull them?

 

Ask me how comfortable i was running the mile in gym class as a fat body.

 

You failed, you’re supposed to get on your knees and beg for mercy from dviss followed by saying sorry for being white.

Piece of shit

 

This subject highlights another symptom of how the lefts agenda does nothing but divide. The very books that were required reading, that promoted thought, that inspired the imaginations of generations, are being banned.

To think that classics from Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Dreiser, Orwell, Faulkner, Jack London, Vonnegut, Salinger, Bradbury, Hemingway, Baldwin, Margret Mitchel, Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, as well as some contemporary writers like King, S.E. Hinton, Tolkien, Rollings, Harper Lee, Grisham, and on and on...

All these guy and many more have had and are having their books removed from schools and public libraries.

Top reasons are "According to the OIF, the top three reasons for challenging such materials were that they contained "sexually explicit" content, "offensive" language, or were "unsuited to any age group".

But hey, Rap music can say anything..."Artists" can say or do anything ...Mags can teach young teens that alternative sexual concepts are perfectly cool, teens can get abortions on demand without parental control, and on and on and on...


Dont dare challenge what is socially super hip and groovy..dont make people learn to think......just fill their little noggins with platitudes while leading them to their mindless bumper sticker logic circle so they can protest books....

Laughable.

 

Hitler!!!!

 

You know, I know better than to read a post out of order. Takes it out of context.

I read this like, six or seven times, looking for the green font.

Can I yell mean things to you while you watch Roots, as to make your experience less enjoyable? You know, you deserve no pleasure....

To equate movies with history...I just cant even go there. I cant "feel" good or bad about the Irish Potato Famine, I cant take blame for Thousands of years of slavery on this planet. I cant "Feel" guilt for the extermination of indigenous cultures that have come and gone from the dawn of man.

You want to take that on, its all yours brother. I have enough to deal with in the here and now.

 

I'm not taking anything on. I feel things. I felt terrible when Wil Smith killed his dog in I am Legend.


I don't feel happy when they throw a gratuitous white savior in a movie. I know what they're doing, pandering to the audience.

I saw a movie recently where there was literally no reason to make the girl go topless in it. I can't remember what movie it was but when I (ME!!!) think it is unnecessary it probably is.

 

You ruined my HCP joke before I could use it.

 

well shit I wouldn't argue with that choice. Making girls go topless for no reason, LETS GO!!

 

When I'm watching a good movie and I see some boobs and go "yippee" my wife doesn't like it.

 

Tell her you should get to look at the menu as long as you always order the special (her).

 

She doesn't care that I look. We talk about that all the time. Just hates when I interrupt the movie.