New Youngkin ad starring a parent who wanted Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' removed from schools because

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This whole tread is dumb plain and simple

Youngkin lied again big surprise.

This mother is absurd. Her "child" was an adult at the time
18 years old. Poor woe is me he had to read something of intelligence. He could be drafted for god's sake. Off to college that following fall.

Anyone who thinks a senior in HS can not read this book is an idot!

Youngkin = Trumpism = Destruction of VA for ever.

Youngkin is already playing fast and free with the Big lie eroding Democracy. He's a liar and he will surely destroy the state.

Shame on anyone voting for that garbage POS because that is what he is.

Hopefully, Trump shows up this week. Youngkin needs the help HAHAHAHAHA

The only liar here is you. Youngkin has repeatedly said Biden won the 2020 election - where have you been? Probably spreading your own Big Lies, of which there are many.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This whole tread is dumb plain and simple

Youngkin lied again big surprise.

This mother is absurd. Her "child" was an adult at the time
18 years old. Poor woe is me he had to read something of intelligence. He could be drafted for god's sake. Off to college that following fall.

Anyone who thinks a senior in HS can not read this book is an idot!

Youngkin = Trumpism = Destruction of VA for ever.

Youngkin is already playing fast and free with the Big lie eroding Democracy. He's a liar and he will surely destroy the state.

Shame on anyone voting for that garbage POS because that is what he is.

Hopefully, Trump shows up this week. Youngkin needs the help HAHAHAHAHA

LOL. Trump will show up on Wednesday while all McCauliffe’s campaign workers are all still hung over from celebrating. Youngkin’ is toast. #ETTD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The NY Times Book Review in 2006 surveyed a "couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, asking them to please identify 'the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years.'"

Beloved won.

Any other outcome would have been startling, since Morrison's novel has inserted itself into the American canon more completely than any of its potential rivals. With remarkable speed, "Beloved" has, less than 20 years after its publication, become a staple of the college literary curriculum, which is to say a classic. This triumph is commensurate with its ambition, since it was Morrison's intention in writing it precisely to expand the range of classic American literature, to enter, as a living black woman, the company of dead white males like Faulkner, Melville, Hawthorne and Twain. When the book first began to be assigned in college classrooms, during an earlier and in retrospect much tamer phase of the culture wars, its inclusion on syllabuses was taken, by partisans and opponents alike, as a radical gesture. (The conservative canard one heard in those days was that left-wing professors were casting aside Shakespeare in favor of Morrison.) But the political rhetoric of the time obscured the essential conservatism of the novel, which aimed not to displace or overthrow its beloved precursors, but to complete and to some extent correct them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/books/review/scott-essay.html

No one has claimed it isn't an excellent, powerful book. That has nothing to do with the very valid criticisms of its graphically violent sexual content.

And it was part of the curriculum of an AP English class - a COLLEGE level class - where the students could choose a different book to read. Yet the mother in the commercial wanted to ban the book, which is considered one of the greatest American novels.

Could this be any more ridiculous?

It’s everyone-gets-a-trophy snowflake parenting. They want college credit for their kid who can’t manage college-level content.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This whole tread is dumb plain and simple

Youngkin lied again big surprise.

This mother is absurd. Her "child" was an adult at the time
18 years old. Poor woe is me he had to read something of intelligence. He could be drafted for god's sake. Off to college that following fall.

Anyone who thinks a senior in HS can not read this book is an idot!

Youngkin = Trumpism = Destruction of VA for ever.

Youngkin is already playing fast and free with the Big lie eroding Democracy. He's a liar and he will surely destroy the state.

Shame on anyone voting for that garbage POS because that is what he is.

Hopefully, Trump shows up this week. Youngkin needs the help HAHAHAHAHA

Is Trump in Arlington yet?

[Anonymous]

And the ones that need advanced classes should absolutely be educated with exposure to advanced novels like beloved. If a kid is not ready for advanced lit classes, that is fine but some are ready.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the ones that need advanced classes should absolutely be educated with exposure to advanced novels like beloved. If a kid is not ready for advanced lit classes, that is fine but some are ready.

Why is it advanced? The sex?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the ones that need advanced classes should absolutely be educated with exposure to advanced novels like beloved. If a kid is not ready for advanced lit classes, that is fine but some are ready.

Why is it advanced? The sex?

Virginia is for dummies.

The kids from other states get a top education with exposure to author's like tony Morrison but not the virginia students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the ones that need advanced classes should absolutely be educated with exposure to advanced novels like beloved. If a kid is not ready for advanced lit classes, that is fine but some are ready.

Why is it advanced? The sex?

DP. It is advanced because it is complex piece of literature that addresses issues like slavery in an unsanitized way. Sexual violence was a fact of life for slaves, and sophisticated literature shouldn’t shy away from that because it will make people uncomfortable. Frankly, important literature should make people uncomfortable - it should force them to confront the ways in which they’ve shielded themselves from atrocities in order to ignore their own biases and justify things like continuing to glorify confederate generals. When those people fought to maintain slavery, part of what they were fighting to maintain was the victimization of people like those in Beloved (which was inspired by a true story). It’s important that we fully understand what that era was about beyond the profitability of cotton and tobacco. Glossing over what happened to slave with a passing reference to “he sexually violated her” and then moving on lets people continue to pretend it wasn’t as bad as it was.

It’s uncomfortable for you to read about it or think about it? Good. Imagine how “uncomfortable” it is for those who lived it. Imagine how uncomfortable it still is for some people who are the descendants of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the ones that need advanced classes should absolutely be educated with exposure to advanced novels like beloved. If a kid is not ready for advanced lit classes, that is fine but some are ready.

Why is it advanced? The sex?

Virginia is for dummies.

The kids from other states get a top education with exposure to author's like tony Morrison but not the virginia students.

Toni* Morrison

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the ones that need advanced classes should absolutely be educated with exposure to advanced novels like beloved. If a kid is not ready for advanced lit classes, that is fine but some are ready.

Why is it advanced? The sex?

DP. Because it's a big, complicated novel about a big, complicated topic. Do you also ask why Moby-Dick is an advanced novel? Or The Brothers Karamazov?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the ones that need advanced classes should absolutely be educated with exposure to advanced novels like beloved. If a kid is not ready for advanced lit classes, that is fine but some are ready.

The empress has no clothes. This book won awards because of the identity of it's author, not because it rose to the heights of English literature. This is the same reason it is taught in AP Lit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the ones that need advanced classes should absolutely be educated with exposure to advanced novels like beloved. If a kid is not ready for advanced lit classes, that is fine but some are ready.

The empress has no clothes. This book won awards because of the identity of it's author, not because it rose to the heights of English literature. This is the same reason it is taught in AP Lit.

So raise your student to be ignorant about beloved and toni morrison. Don't put on the rest of the students in Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the ones that need advanced classes should absolutely be educated with exposure to advanced novels like beloved. If a kid is not ready for advanced lit classes, that is fine but some are ready.

The empress has no clothes. This book won awards because of the identity of it's author, not because it rose to the heights of English literature. This is the same reason it is taught in AP Lit.

I really hope you aren’t saying Beloved is only highly regarded because it was written by a black person. If you meant something else, I think should explain that a bit better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the ones that need advanced classes should absolutely be educated with exposure to advanced novels like beloved. If a kid is not ready for advanced lit classes, that is fine but some are ready.

Why is it advanced? The sex?

DP. It is advanced because it is complex piece of literature that addresses issues like slavery in an unsanitized way. Sexual violence was a fact of life for slaves, and sophisticated literature shouldn’t shy away from that because it will make people uncomfortable. Frankly, important literature should make people uncomfortable - it should force them to confront the ways in which they’ve shielded themselves from atrocities in order to ignore their own biases and justify things like continuing to glorify confederate generals. When those people fought to maintain slavery, part of what they were fighting to maintain was the victimization of people like those in Beloved (which was inspired by a true story). It’s important that we fully understand what that era was about beyond the profitability of cotton and tobacco. Glossing over what happened to slave with a passing reference to “he sexually violated her” and then moving on lets people continue to pretend it wasn’t as bad as it was.

It’s uncomfortable for you to read about it or think about it? Good. Imagine how “uncomfortable” it is for those who lived it. Imagine how uncomfortable it still is for some people who are the descendants of it.

I'm sure we can find equally advanced novels on the topic that don't contain explicit sex. I had to read Beloved in high school and honestly it was atrocious. The grammar was so poor it was barely English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the ones that need advanced classes should absolutely be educated with exposure to advanced novels like beloved. If a kid is not ready for advanced lit classes, that is fine but some are ready.

Why is it advanced? The sex?

DP. It is advanced because it is complex piece of literature that addresses issues like slavery in an unsanitized way. Sexual violence was a fact of life for slaves, and sophisticated literature shouldn’t shy away from that because it will make people uncomfortable. Frankly, important literature should make people uncomfortable - it should force them to confront the ways in which they’ve shielded themselves from atrocities in order to ignore their own biases and justify things like continuing to glorify confederate generals. When those people fought to maintain slavery, part of what they were fighting to maintain was the victimization of people like those in Beloved (which was inspired by a true story). It’s important that we fully understand what that era was about beyond the profitability of cotton and tobacco. Glossing over what happened to slave with a passing reference to “he sexually violated her” and then moving on lets people continue to pretend it wasn’t as bad as it was.

It’s uncomfortable for you to read about it or think about it? Good. Imagine how “uncomfortable” it is for those who lived it. Imagine how uncomfortable it still is for some people who are the descendants of it.

I'm sure we can find equally advanced novels on the topic that don't contain explicit sex. I had to read Beloved in high school and honestly it was atrocious. The grammar was so poor it was barely English.

Ok. Troll. Please post an example of the offending grammar.