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

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    Then suggest that maybe sometime you and she should share the fish tacos.

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    There's "uncomfortable" and there's "UNCOMFORTABLE". It's sad to me that this decision was made because they believe that TKAM fits in the second category. I just wonder what other book they think can replace its message.
     
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    Damn. That is crazy.
     
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    After seeing Deliverance, my guess would be Charlotte's Web. It's best to start pro pig culture when they're young.

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    Just watched the whole gay nazi video at the gym. Wonder if anyone behind me was uncomfortable seeing the Swastika flags on my phone.

    I almost stopped the video.
     
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    It is a required reading list. Times change. If parents think it is still essential, it is still in the school library.
     
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    Read it. Actually found it rather boring and loathed every character. But it should not be censored. I'd rather say let people read it, be bored, and realize nothing to make a fuss about.
     
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    What? The quote, the book, my father giving it to me at 13, or what the man described?
     
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    I never finished the book. Who killed the mockingbird?

    (I did read it).
     
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    HCP ate it.
     
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    All four of your subjects . The most fascinating thing is when your father gave you the Book.
     
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    Good! Leave it be. The book isn't that good anyway, I got tired of reading it maybe 2/3 the way through.
    Gregory Peck made the movie way more interesting than the book ever was.

    Never could get through Hemingway books either. Most of them, just too damn depressing.
     
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    Probably Halle Berry in Swordfish. That one jumped out at me as supremely gratuitous. Like "Here ya go!"
     
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    Mother Fucker! I KNEW this was gonna happen. In today's climate where EVERYTHING and something offends somebody it was just a matter of time.
     
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    We are literally 'Fahrenheit 451' now.
     
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    I read Tropic of Cancer. Didn't like it. Found it rather dull, extremely sexist, and all the characters were very unpleasant people. But would still defend it against any attempts to censor.
     
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    My parents definitely did not think I should be sheltered from uncomfortable subjects. I was even younger when I read The Children of Vietnam. Mostly pictures. Pictures of what napalm and cluster bombs due to small human bodies. It was uncomfortable. To put it mildly.
     
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    For some reason I didn't mind Halle Berry doing it. :bgrin:
     
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