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Laura Ingalls Wilder now considered racist and removed from award. Double plus good. https://www.theguardian.com/bo...rns?CMP=share_btn_fb --------------- "Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, “I am a warrior.” --Joel 3:10, ESV | ||
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The Almanzo Wilder farm in upstate NY must be thrilled. Their survival depends on the exact yuppie tourists who will no longer flock to the farm because virtue signaling told them it was wrong to. ______________________________________________ “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.” | |||
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Wait a cotton pick'n minute! | |||
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It's another revisionist history at play or could it be the beginning of Fahrenheit 451 or 1984. It's sounding like the real Nazis are the Leftist. They are trying to ban free speech, books, religion, and symbols they don't like. As Winston Churchill said "Never give in, Never give in" to the Nazi threat here now in American. And it's not Trump. Chris | |||
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Wilder was born in 1867 and died in 1957. She is best known for her eight Little House on the Prairie novels, about pioneer life in the American West, which were published between 1932 and 1943. In 2010, the British broadcaster Samira Ahmed wrote for the Guardian: “Wilder has a special status in American culture despite posthumous allegations of racism. The Osage nation, according to biographer Pamela Smith Hill, still condemns her work, which was based on their eviction. “The novels are full of phrases that are unacceptable today. Even in her own lifetime Wilder apologized for her thoughtlessness and amended a line in Little House on the Prairie that said Kansas had ‘no people, only Indians’. It now reads, ‘no settlers, only Indians’.” Sheesh....  "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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It's interesting that you say that. I told my brother yesterday that I see us as somewhere between 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 in terms of what's beginning. ______________________________________________ “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.” | |||
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| Coin Sniper |
So when do libraries start the book burnings? Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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| That rug really tied the room together. |
That's weird, when I read a book , I take into account the timeframe it was written and what words and phrases are customary for the time. ______________________________________________________ Often times a very small man can cast a very large shadow | |||
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| bigger government = smaller citizen  |
You must not have gone to college. “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken | |||
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I posted about Larry Correia, John Ringo, Brad Torgerson, Jon Arroz, David Weber facing these kinds of discriminations via literary conventions a while back. Since then they have booted several editors and literary agents from publishers who supported authors of a more libertarian streak. The purge of talented Sci-Fi, and Fantasy writers who lack the "think right" mindset is amazing. | |||
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| half-genius, half-wit |
G*d forbid they should ever find out about Anna Sewell, author of 'Black Beauty'. And what about that pirate movie and the ship called the 'Black Pearl'? Here in UK part of the history of the Wars of the Roses, as well as the Hundred Year's War, involved Edward, the Black Prince, and HE was white, fer gosh sakes. I guess we'll soon see him taken out of our history books. tac | |||
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You shouldn't project todays standards. They will project their standards on yesterdays people, provided it is not their beloved Che, Castro, Lenin, ect... | |||
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But requires rational thought. If you expect that sort of thing from liberals, it is very bigoted of you, you need to check your white privilege, etc. . | |||
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What are you doing right now that will offend people 150 years from now? Pose this question to the idiots who complain about Mark Twain and Wilder. Ridiculous ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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So I guess Darwin and Margret Sanger, Malcolm X and Che Guevara are next on the hit list for being racist? Oh, if forgot, it's OK to be a racist if you are a lefty. | |||
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Hero's, one and all, comrade! __________________________________ NRA Benefactor I lost all my weapons in a boating, umm, accident. http://www.aufamily.com/forums/ | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
Idiots have been getting wound up about Mark Twain books for generations. It furnishes a handy, quick measure of who the real morons are who either do not read, or do not understand what they read. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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It is ridiculous, plainly. What is so difficult about recognizing the difference between something said 80 or 90 years ago in different circumstances, and something said today. Perhaps some of Ingalls' statements were racist. It was a different time, and we can recognize those things as not something we would say now without having to throw her out of the literary canon. Twain is even a different case, as he wasn't a racist. He may have used the word "nigger," but he was mocking the racism of the day. He was ahead of his time, but the words he used make the delicate left unable to even see what he was actually saying. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
He was using the language of his day. If he was alive and writing that now, he should use the same language to mock the same points. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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